Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 2 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 3 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 4 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 5 | The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application . |
| 6 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 7 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 8 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 9 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 10 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 11 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 12 | But er what we say is that we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles away from home |
| 13 | Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent . |
| 14 | Karl , 62 , was sentenced in Bangkok five years ago to a HUNDRED years for murdering his Thai bride-to-be , but was released under an amnesty marking Queen Sirikit 's 60th birthday . |
| 15 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |
| 16 | well erm we we pay thirty percent commission up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 17 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
| 18 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |
| 19 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 20 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 21 | All assignments up to a hundred miles away from home you will be paid thirty percent . |
| 22 | know for all assignments up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 23 | Cut the rootstock back to a few inches high . |
| 24 | On the information that I have , densities range quite considerably , from as low as ten workers per hectare up to a hundred workers per hectare , but on average somewhere around thirty four , forty three could be taken if one wished to choose an average . |