Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989–90 it took in £5 billion and paid out £9 billion , the following year 's net outflow was £1 billion but for the year just ended there was a £1 billion inflow and now that the government really needs cash , it is probably looking for about £5 billion this year . |
| 2 | That 's despite profits going DOWN by a third to £778 million because of the hot weather . |
| 3 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
| 4 | She had sought £43 million but outside the court she said : ‘ There 's no price you can put on this . |
| 5 | The answer is probably yes ; we did n't have any problems on a fast 8Mb 486 or on a more modest 386SX with 4Mb of RAM . |
| 6 | The withdrawals line , then , which is an aggregation of the saving , taxation and import lines , will be pushed upwards by £2 million because of the tax rise and downwards by £0.8 million because of the fall in saving and imports . |
| 7 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 8 | The withdrawals line , then , which is an aggregation of the saving , taxation and import lines , will be pushed upwards by £2 million because of the tax rise and downwards by £0.8 million because of the fall in saving and imports . |
| 9 | Egypt also stood to lose some $200 million because of the devaluation of Gulf currencies , in addition to $500 million in back pay owed by Iraq to Egyptian workers , and $150-200 million owed by the Iraqi government to Egyptian companies . |
| 10 | On the face of it , this offer gives you the option of substantially more than £6 million providing over a two year period profits increase . |
| 11 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 12 | However , no agreement was reached on the total amount of assistance , estimated by the USA to be around $14,000 million but by the EC as no more than $9,000 million . |
| 13 | PROFITS at the Bradford and Bingley building society , Britain 's seventh largest , have slumped by £14 million because of the housing crisis . |
| 14 | In 1989 exports to Western countries rose by 9.5 per cent as against 1988 , but there was a deficit of approximately US$1,000 million because of a 6.6 per cent increase in imports . |
| 15 | It found that at 5 July , 1991 , the Western Isles authority had suffered a total loss of more than £24 million because of the fall of the bank . |