Sentence examples for size of shareholding from inspiring English sources

At around £2,800, the average size of shareholding in these ventures is about the same as in the UK and, like here, over 90% of investors are private individuals.

Limits on the size of shareholdings that the country's big industrial groups could take in banks were meant to keep them from using the banks as captive providers of credit to favored companies.

The trust declined to reveal the size of the shareholding but it is understood that it is worth several million pounds.

His predecessor Bob Diamond – who left amid the fallout from the Libor-rigging scandal – had said he would take up his rights, which would have cost him £6m because of the size of his shareholding.

Despite the size of his shareholding, Liu would retain a majority voting right for JD Finance.

A Quaker investor once put it simply: "The size of the shareholdings that the churches have together tends to mean that you get attention from more senior people in the company," adding that the "the collaborative way of working will get better and better and become more and more important".

"Because of the size of the state shareholding in R.B.S. and Lloyds, selling these shares will take a number of years," Mr. Hester said on Friday.

The UK, French and German governments all had the power to veto the deal but Berlin's concern over the potential size of the French shareholding in the combined company, as well as disagreements over the location of the group's headquarters, proved to be the deal breaker that could not be resolved by the last-ditch round of phone diplomacy.

Ordinary Syrians are getting ever more fearful.Clarification: At the request of Byblos Bank, since publication we have given the precise size of Mr Makhlouf's shareholding.

BAE's chief executive, Ian King, said failure to agree the size of French and German shareholdings was the key factor behind abandoning the deal, ahead of a 5pm deadline set by the UK Takeover Panel.

There is even a possibility of a wider spread of shareholding.