Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is also right to draw attention to the high additional spending programmes of some £35 billion advocated by the Labour party , which would put a crippling tax burden on so many families in Britain . |
| 2 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 3 | The field of Old Master and modern drawings has been much less hyped than other markets and rarely sees fireworks like the world record of £4.18 million paid for a Van Gogh drawing in December 1990 . |
| 4 | As many as 40 local councils stood to lose up to £100 million from the collapse of BCCI , the largest likely loss being that of the Western Isles which had £23 million invested in the bank . |
| 5 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 6 | Phillips also contradicts Clarke 's view that cuts of £28 million forced on the Science and Engineering Research Council are the result of ‘ reckless overcommitment ’ by the SERC . |
| 7 | The house was then advertised for sale at £15 million compared to the £6 million it had sold for in 1988 . |
| 8 | The total costs are now estimated at £25 million capital costs , plus either ] £10 million or £16 million needed for the endowment necessary to fund the operating costs of the extended library and the permanent outhousing of 50 staff . |
| 9 | The Housing Act 1925 , s. 46 provided for the assessment of compensation for land acquired compulsorily under an improvement or reconstruction scheme made under that Act in a manner differing in certain respects from that prescribed by the Act of 1919 . |
| 10 | Mr MacAskill argued that Scotland was already losing out to the south of England in terms of investment with £65 million spent over three years north of the Border compared with £1.2 billion allocated by the Government to fund the Jubilee Underground line in London . |
| 11 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 12 | On its traditional business , the Building Society itself returned a pre-tax profit of £34.0 million compared with a figure of £29.8 million in 1988 . |
| 13 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 14 | In December , the DoT decided against granting the £5 million needed for the road , which would stretch from nearby Snape Hill to Red Bridge . |
| 15 | Under pressure : oil firms fear the impact of changes which will mean up to £400 million lost to the industry |
| 16 | The Wolfson Foundation spends about £17 million a year on medical research ( compared with a total of about £400 million spent by the other charities ) . |
| 17 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnear appeals later this month against an £1,800 fine imposed after an incident involving match officials at a reserve game . |
| 19 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 20 | They were chiefly concerned with the destiny of the £2.1 million identified within the strategy for community developments ( Table 2 ) . |
| 21 | Take a married couple with about £1.6 million invested in the stock market living off dividend income of slightly under £80,000 a year . |
| 22 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 23 | An extra £2 billion flooded into the market as the top 100 share index rose by over 13 points . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 25 | Net investment in your Society during the year amounted to £256.2 million compared with a figure of £321.3 million in 1988 . |
| 26 | And they 're looking for your money-raising ideas to top the record £2 million raised in the south last time … and the zanier the ideas the better , say the organisers . |
| 27 | A report prepared by head teachers in Cambridgeshire and circulated to all county councillors comments on the impact of the £2 million cut in the county council 's budget . |
| 28 | Pension fund frauds came next at £147 million followed by the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise with a total of £99 million . |
| 29 | However , if oil prices do harden in the latter part of this century the $2.5–3.5 billion lost following the 1982 price fall could be recouped with interest . |
| 30 | In weighing the cost of the venture it should be remembered that 2.5 million people were employed and $25 billion spent on the project to land a man on the moon in the 1960s . |