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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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income
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Unemployment benefits on average rose in line with pre-tax incomes during the sixties.
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We plot pre-tax income on the horizontal axis and post-tax income on the vertical axis.
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With two children, that amounts to a fifth of pre-tax income .
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A pre-tax income measured on the horizontal axis would convert into the same amount of post-tax income measured on the vertical axis.
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Show that the majority voting equilibrium with a poll tax is such that, where Y m is the median pre-tax income .
level
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At the pre-tax level , profits were up 2.3% at £763,000.
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At the pre-tax level , profits were down 90.0% at £160,000.
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At the pre-tax level , profits fell 35.8% at £1,970m.
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At the pre-tax level , profits fell 12.5% to £1.2m.
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At the pre-tax level , profits were up 27.2% at £41.6m.
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At the pre-tax level , profits rose 14% at £16.6m; earnings per share rose 11% to 16.8 pence.
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At the pre-tax level , profits were up 89.6% at £29.2m.
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At the pre-tax level , profits stood at £134,000 against losses of £3.2m last time.
loss
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The pre-tax loss was £2.1m, down from £3.8m last time.
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The company swung the axe before revealing pre-tax losses of £129 million for the first half of this year.
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Christie Group has reported a pre-tax loss of £2.6m for the year to March.
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But interest charges turned that into a £100m pre-tax loss - the first in the company's 26-year history.
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For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m, compared with a massive £448.4m last time.
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The company wanting to build the plant has reported massive pre-tax losses .
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It currently has assets of less than £2m and in the year to last March made a pre-tax loss of £716,000.
profit
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Fisons announced a 17 percent decline in pre-tax profits in 1991 to £190.5m.
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It was still more prominent in the rise in pre-tax profit to £5.14million, from £2.83million.
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The half-year figures showed an 8 percent increase in pre-tax profits to £65.2m, and a similar rise in earnings to 7p.
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Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December, after an exceptional item of £16.6m.
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Central Television has announced record pre-tax profits of just over forty one million pounds.
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That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months.
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Analysts expect the company to make £36m pre-tax profits for the year to March.
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Their latest pre-tax profits were between 26%-54% of sales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the pre-tax level, profits were down 90.0% at £160,000.
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Despite a further weakening of demand, St Ives managed to hold pre-tax profits at £10.1m in the six months to January.
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In the first six months of 1992, member firms' pre-tax aggregate profits totalled £131 million.
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Interim figures unveiled yesterday show a 16% leap in pre-tax profits to £95m and are at the top end of market forecasts.
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Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December, after an exceptional item of £16.6m.
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Next in line was information services with 6.4% median turnover growth and 12.3% pre-tax growth.
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The pre-tax loss was £2.1m, down from £3.8m last time.
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The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested.