Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked to rub in her few months extra from time to time . |
| 2 | There is convincing evidence that a predisposition to alcoholism itself has a significant genetic component and therefore to examine the role of any genetic factors in predisposition to end-organ damage distinct from predisposition to alcoholism , any study should ideally include two groups of alcoholics , well matched for alcohol intake , with and without end-organ damage . |
| 3 | The Cut — 500 feet wide from shore to shore , 45 feet deep , illuminated at night by a blaze of red and white lights — is of a size to dwarf the vessels passing through it . |
| 4 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 5 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 6 | The marriage is not finally dissolved until the decree is made absolute ; thus , transfers of property in the period between the decree nisi and the decree absolute from husband to wife incur no inheritance tax liability . |
| 7 | Cracks zig-zagged from floor to ceiling , chunks of plaster fell in spattering clouds from the walls and three more windows exploded inwards . |
| 8 | Those in Asia are two foot long from tip to tail . |
| 9 | Deeper down , though , the main mass cools down much more slowly , so that for weeks afterwards the core of the flow will be red hot , with the glow visible from time to time when small collapses take place . |
| 10 | He does not begin to describe what the effect was on Russia of by-passing the Reformation , the Counter-reformation and the Enlightenment ; instead , in an effort to be friendly , he mentions things Russian from time to time . |
| 11 | The sperm is about microns long from end to end . |
| 12 | This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . |
| 13 | At the other extreme , I suppose , one has those authors who create a landscape recognisable from book to book , regardless of the subject . |