Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost certainly if we had the full text of Edward 's coronation oath , we should find that , like his predecessors back to the early twelfth century and his successors to the end of the Middle Ages , he promised to protect the liberties of the church , which , after all , was also the substance of the first clause of Magna Carta . |
| 2 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 3 | When people had drunk their tea they would pass the trays to the end of the row . |
| 4 | Some comfort may be had by adding the following words to the end of this clause : provided that the Tenant shall have the same rights of relief against forfeiture as if the Lease had been completed |
| 5 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , for instance , write of the break-up of ‘ organized capitalism ’ and the development of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ , in the variable responses of the United States and some of the West European nations to the end of the post-war boom ; Piore and Sabel ( 1984 ) write of a ‘ second industrial divide ’ opening up in societies as a result of the development of flexible manufacturing systems . |
| 6 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 7 | KENNING Motor Group , a subsidiary of Ron Brierley 's quoted UK motor dealership , Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn , achieved a slim increase in pre-tax profit to £1.6million ( against £1.59million last year ) in the six months to the end of June , although turnover fell from £96.5million in 1988 to £88.7million . |
| 8 | WHITBREAD Investment Company , the offshoot of the eponymous brewing empire , increased its income 9 per cent to just over £7million in the six months to the end of September . |
| 9 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 10 | AMI HEALTHCARE , the private hospitals group , raised pre-tax profits by 15 per cent to £6.6million in the three months to the end of November . |
| 11 | Home Office figures published yesterday show that 49,200 people were accepted for settlement in the 12 months to the end of September . |
| 12 | Losses from the American business were £670,000 in the 17 months to the end of last February . |
| 13 | The figures for the three months to the end of November indicate that the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports which has set Britain on course for a worst ever annual trade deficit . |
| 14 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 15 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 16 | PAY increases continued to fall in the three months to the end of February , figures out today show . |
| 17 | The rate of increase slipped to 3 per cent during the period compared with 3.6pc in the three months to the end of January , the Labour Research Department said in a survey of more than 600 settlements . |
| 18 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 19 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 20 | Microsoft 's selling costs amounted to 33% of sales in the nine months to the end of March , up from 27% three years earlier . |
| 21 | A total of 5.1 million notifiable offences were recorded by the police in the 12 months to the end of September 1991 , the latest period for which firm figures are available . |
| 22 | Sales in the six months to the end of February grew 11pc to £1,025m with prescription medicines accounting for the vast majority . |
| 23 | He described the results for the 12 months to the end of March as ‘ the best we could have hoped for ’ . |
| 24 | News of the agreement and the announcement of a 34 per cent increase to A$183 million in net profits for the six months to the end of December 1990 helped the share value to recover to stand at A$7.26 on Feb. 14 . |
| 25 | ANC leaders including its president Nelson Mandela had previously made similar allegations against the government , refusing to continue with constitutional negotiations until it acted to halt the violence [ see p. 38178 ] , which was reported to have claimed some 2,000 lives over 10 months to the end of June . |
| 26 | Capital expenditure is underway to upgrade the mills being retained with £8 million scheduled to be spent in the 18 months to the end of 1993 . |
| 27 | In the three months to the end of April , housing starts rose 16pc compared with the same period in 1992 . |
| 28 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn , compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 29 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office yesterday showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 30 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |