capital employed in a sentence

Examples

1. P & AMP; O said it's aiming for a return on capital employed of 15 percent, from 11 percent in 1995.
2. Jacobs said the target for Barings was 11 percent on capital employed, but that last year this had fallen short of target.
3. The return on capital employed increased from 5 . 4 per cent in 1994 to 10 . 91 per cent in 1997.
4. BP's return on average capital employed in chemicals has fallen to 20 percent from 42 percent, although it expects that return to remain steady
5. He said BT's return on capital employed will fall by as much as 50 percent by 2003 from more than 20 percent at present.
6. On the contrary, capital employed in the trade was had already been directed to sectors such as enterprises of urban services, transport, banking and trade.
7. The CBC bureau in Mexico's capital employed four people, including a producer and a correspondent, at full staff, although only three people work there currently.
8. The largest nonfinancial state enterprises recorded ( inflation-discounted ) losses in the seven-year period from 1977 to 1983 equivalent to 11 percent on capital employed.
9. But newer measures include not only hours worked but the quality of their work and the capital employed, said Dale Jorgenson, a Harvard University economist.
10. We are single-minded in our commitment to getting back to a higher return on capital employed and in the meantime making strategic asset disposals were appropriate,