Example sentences of "now [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race is now on to show that the Government is wrong before the last bird in the UK is slaughtered . |
| 2 | Now on to Bradford on Avon , the ancient wool town , and up the steep hills lined with stone houses , most of which seem to be antique shops . |
| 3 | It 's going very fast , over the carpet , on to the chair , and now on to the table . |
| 4 | He looked down now on to the plate on which lay a pig 's foot and two pieces of streaky pork ; and picking up the pig 's foot in his two hands , he gnawed at it for a moment before looking at the child again and asking her , ‘ Well , what 's your other name ? ’ |
| 5 | He was now on to the mid-irons and these were flying high and true . |
| 6 | The afternoon progressed , but was moved now on to a different plane , lit by the glow of expectation . |
| 7 | Now on to this business of a part time job . |
| 8 | Now on to the next hole , |
| 9 | The race is now on to fund what would be a major buy for the museum . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , Sunley is now on to his sixth manager , after starting his career at Middlesbrough under Bruce Rioch , who also took him to Millwall . |
| 11 | 3 The defender , now halfway to the floor , snakes his back foot around the attacker . |
| 12 | CHP sizes are cost-effective — now down to about 17kW electrical output — and suitable for the average 25-bedroom hotel . |
| 13 | The US discount rate is now down to 3.5 per cent , the lowest level for a generation . |
| 14 | By 1971 hair had got even longer and was now down to the collar . |
| 15 | The faded beauties , Kent and Yorkshire , are facing declining memberships — now down to 4,700 and 8,000 respectively . |
| 16 | Holdings of around one third were common in the 1970s , but the proportion fell during the boom in equities in the 1980s and is now down to 9% . |
| 17 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 18 | The line-up is now down to a five-piece , guitarist Angelo Bruschini having quit the group less than a month ago . |
| 19 | At the beginning of May he had had nearly £300 in his bank account ; the balance was now down to double figures and falling fast . |
| 20 | Its five commissioners are now down to three . |
| 21 | The Waltham , Massachusetts company had 50 employees when Intel bought it , but it is now down to 30 . |
| 22 | The Microprocessor Report says we 're now down to six serious chips contending for the desktop : Intel Corp iAPX-86 , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , Mips Technologies Inc R series , Hewlett-Packard Co PA-RISC , IBM Corp PowerPC and Digital Equipment Corp Alpha , having discarded the Intel 860 , Motorola Inc 88000 and Intergraph Corp Clipper as unreal . |
| 23 | Opus , now down to 20 employees , is straddled with the liabilities run up during its spoiled foray into Sparc-based workstations . |
| 24 | It is now down to 126,000 employees and is thought to want to get that down to 100,000 by December . |
| 25 | Now down to your questions , and I 'll let you get away with enquiring about Lemmings on the C64 this time — see the Stuff column — but anyone else asking the same thing will feel my steel . |
| 26 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 27 | I 'm now down to the weight my doctor said I should be . |
| 28 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 29 | NCPR 's corps of secretaries was now down to one woman , a middle-aged Italian with a moustache . |
| 30 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |