31. Every night it writes off as lost whatever of those seconds you have failed to invest to good purpose. 32. BHP lost A $ 712 million in the fourth quarter after writing off A $ 1.1 billion in assets. 33. Last year, Sumitomo Bank reported pretax losses after writing off as many as 800 billion yen in bad loans. 34. Plans call for writing off a combined 300 billion yen ( $ 2 . 5 billion ) in bad loans. 35. The Met also had to write off a US $ 4 million pledge when philanthropist Alberto Vilar failed to deliver. 36. Japan had suspended the trade insurance after Egypt was allowed to write off a large portion of its foreign debt. 37. This tournament is too tough, too unpredictable to write off a result to something as gauzy and ephemeral as fate. 38. It probably will be worse off after Oklahoma State, but I won't write off a Longhorns baseball team or Garrido. 39. BHP lost A $ 712 million in the fourth quarter after writing off A $ 1 . 1 billion in assets. 40. Fiorillo estimates that Japan's 20 largest banks will write off as much as 6 trillion yen in bad loans this year.
