Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the profession have their own example to quote of a rival firm bidding 20% to 50% under the otherwise going rate . |
| 2 | Many in the profession have their own example to quote of a rival firm bidding 20% to 50% under the otherwise going rate |
| 3 | Cable & Wireless also enjoyed a rally , leaping 9p to 653p following a 16% rise in Hong Kong Telecom 's interim figures . |
| 4 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 5 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 6 | WCRS Group , the advertising consultancy , enjoyed a late flurry , gaining 18p to 332p . |
| 7 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 8 | Burmah was in demand , climbing 18p to 619p , a considerable performance on such a depressing day . |
| 9 | Shares in both companies rose on the news , P&O firming 2p to 603p and Granada gaining 20p to 385p . |
| 10 | Savoy Hotel bucked the downward pull with the ‘ A ’ shares climbing 10p to 873p . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 12 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 13 | But United Biscuits responded to new time buying , gaining 6p to 360p . |
| 14 | The jets , costing $10m to $12m ( £5.6m to £6.7m ) a time , are built at Chester and Hatfield and provide employment for around 1,200 at the two sites . |
| 15 | I have found a five-acre lake which has both deep and shallow water and I have heard that it holds a good head of carp averaging 8lb to 14lb with a distinct possibility of a 20-pounder . |
| 16 | Cover should include all reasonable medical treatment , extra hotel and travel expenses related to sickness or injury , and daily hospital benefit averaging £10 to £15 . |
| 17 | But there are many more affordable and comfortable holidays in Inghams ' brochures too , with good four-star hotels typically costing £400 to £550 for a week 's half-board holiday out of peak season . |
| 18 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200M-bytes per second data transfer capable of addressing 8Mb to 256Mb of memory . |
| 19 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200 Mbyte/second data transfer and capable of addressing 8MB to 256MB of memory . |
| 20 | Dealers reacted to the details positively , the telecommunication giant 's shares surging 11p to 424p on a buoyant day on the London market where about £3 billion was added to the value of shares as the FTSE index soared 23.7 to 2885.5 . |
| 21 | Costing $50,000 to $75,000 , it takes seven to eight weeks to complete . |
| 22 | Prices go from $400 to $900 with development systems costing $1,000 to $1,500 . |
| 23 | With the fees for shooting hill stags currently averaging £200 to £250 , the total income from commercial lets is £1.5–£2 million . |
| 24 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 25 | However , this solution prevents the group achieving any gains from assigning people to tasks according to their comparative advantage . |
| 26 | Thorn EMI was the star performer , surging 13p to 872p thanks to booming U.S. music sales and favourable comments from brokers . |
| 27 | From waterslides to lake cruises , harness racing to rickshaws , picking fruit to wine tasting . |
| 28 | Since the year-end Lowndes has settled one of its actions , paying £3m to NFC , the former National Freight Consortium , to cover ending a distribution agreement signed before Lowndes took over Harris Queensway . |
| 29 | Leisure group Vardon which owns the London Dungeon has shown less growth , adding 1p to 46p . |
| 30 | Aids treatment Retrovir was equally strong with sales growing 14pc to £131m . |