Sentence examples for increase in half year from inspiring English sources

But Smiths Group rose 17p to £11.56 as it reported a 12% increase in half year profits despite difficult trading conditions, partly helped by cost cutting.

Results from workwear rental company Johnson Services Group showing a 17% increase in half year profits, helped its shares gain 21% to 17.5p.

The headline figures showed an 11% increase in half year revenues to £108.5m and a 6% rise in profits to £27.3m, but within that, its enterprise solutions division showed a slower than expected 5% revenue rise.

Greene delivered a 147% increase in half-year pre-tax profits to £233m.

Ryanair, the Irish discount airline, reported a 15percentt increase in half-year profit, to 201.3 million euros ($255 million) on revenue of 721.1 million euros ($915 million), beating analysts' expectations.

Standard Chartered, a British bank operating mostly in Asia, beat expectations with a 30percentt increase in half-year profit and said it would consider more acquisitions to accelerate growth, including in South Africa.

Gatwick chief executive claimed today that the Sussex airport deserves to be "the UK's next runway" as it benefits from a host of new routes to both Europe and emerging markets, which boosted the airport to post a 19 per cent increase in half-year profit.

Poundland has reported a 12% increase in half-year profits to £9.3m.

As well as the cash return, it plans a 50% increase in its half year dividend to 9p a share and raised its medium term payout target to around 50% of earnings.

At the end of 1999, the average one-bedroom was $1,250, Mr. Punter said, "so that's a 20percentt increase in half a year".

The National Safety Council recently estimated the number of traffic deaths in the United States climbed 8% in 2015 compared with 2014, the largest year-to-year percentage increase in half a century.