1. Pretax profit surged almost twelvefold.

2. A year ago the Tokyo company had a pretax profit of 35 million yen.

3. She predicts pretax earnings of over $13m for the company this year.

4. Pretax profit increased 17 percent to 44 million.

5. Eight analysts surveyed Friday had predicted pretax profit of between 130 million pounds and 127 million pounds.

6. Without the proposed issues, pretax profit would come to 496. 43 million ringgit, the circular said.

7. In 1995 pretax profit fell 6. 51 percent to 21. 97 billion pesetas.

8. Lloyds pretax profit dropped 28 percent to 42. 2 million pounds from 58. 3 million pounds a year earlier.

9. Results include a pretax restructuring charge of $ 46 million, or 17 cents a share.

10. Unconsolidated pretax profit could total 1 billion yen, down from 2. 53 billion yen.

11. That included a $ 475 million pretax charge to cover the costs of replacing flawed Pentium chips.

12. When Stride Rite was earning $ 100 million pretax, it was doing it by selling product that has since been abandoned.

13. Macdougall said he lowered his estimate for 1996 pretax profit to 17 million pounds.

14. Osborn said it would post a fourth-quarter pretax gain of $ 8. 1 million as a result of the sale.

15. House of Fraser yesterday warned its fiscal 1996 pretax profit would be below expectations as margins declined.

16. Comparing the pretax number in one country with the posttax number in another is somewhat meaningless.

17. Over a period of several years, total pretax accounting income may equal total taxable in come, but for any one year the two income amounts are likely to differ.

18. The engineering firm posted a rise in pretax profit and said that it expects to deliver low-single-digit revenue growth.

19. The company is aiming to break even at the pretax level in the year ending March 31.

20. Many entrepreneurial companies simply can not even match six percent pretax margin or look forward to a secure future.

21. Bradstreet said it expects to post 1995 earnings of $ 3. 80 per share before the pretax charge.

22. Bradstreet said it expects to post 1995 earnings of $ 3. 80 a share before the pretax charge.

23. That means First Interstate managers could reap about $ 300 million in pretax profits cashing in their options.

24. For the most part, these huge gains reflected a dramatic rise in the super-elite's share of pretax income.But there were also large tax cuts favoring the wealthy.

24. try its best to gather and build good sentences.

25. If you can afford it, you should try to invest up to 10% of your pretax income every year.

26. The exchange is already a leader in attracting initial public offerings, and its pretax margins are among the industry's highest.

27. Consumer prices rose 3.8% last year from 2007, but pretax income climbed just 0.7%, or $472 an average family.

28. The sale of Columbia Management's long-term asset management business, which generated a $60 million pretax gain and resulted in a reduction in goodwill and intangibles of approximately $800 million.

29. The basics are back, like spending no more than 28 percent of your pretax income on mortgage payments, taxes and insurance.

30. The dividend pay be equivalent to one quarter of the pretax profit.

31. Unemployment and other government benefits helped offset those declines in pretax income, but not entirely.

32. Vacation and health benefits were unusually liberal, and a generous profit sharing plan returned 35% of corporate pretax profits to employees.

33. But there are only 100 cents in the sales dollar and a lot of demands on that dollar before we get down to the residual, pretax profits.

34. Or do I have to take out proportionately from both pretax and after-tax amounts?

35. These accounts let employees save pretax money for health-care costs that won't be covered by their medical plan.

36. Bank of America, which adheres to the guidelines that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set, will let your total debt (including student and other loans) hit 45 percent of your pretax income, but no more.

37. Chart the Census Bureau's numbers for the median pretax income of families headed by a college grad, adjusted for inflation.

38. The influence of economic parameters on the results in reserve estimate is mainly the change of time in zero of pretax net cash flow, that is, the change of economic life.

39. If you're determined to be truly conservative, don't spend more than about 35 percent of your pretax income on mortgage, property tax and home insurance payments.