Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its early days , the ERM allowed weak currencies to devalue from time to time . |
| 2 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 4 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 5 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 6 | CAN anyone explain why a mail-order figurine takes eight days to arrive from Marseilles in France , but when I order a similar item from Canterbury — just 15 miles up the A2 from here — they advise me to allow 28 days for delivery . |
| 7 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 8 | The Industrial Revolution and especially spread of the railways which enabled large numbers to migrate from country to town , meant that many more people were ‘ going out on pleasure bent ’ . |
| 9 | It has simply encouraged existing subscribers to switch from non-qualifying to qualifying policies . |
| 10 | A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 11 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 12 | BASIC and some versions of FORTRAN contain built-in functions to convert from degrees to radians . |
| 13 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 14 | The law recognizes , through various defence doctrines and through the instruction to prosecutorial authorities to refrain from prosecution in certain cases where formally a person is guilty , that disobedience to law is sometimes justified . |
| 15 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
| 16 | Yet the very need for academic subjects to escape from allegations of ‘ practical utility ’ may yet lead to irresistible pressure for change in the period of economic malaise which we currently confront . |
| 17 | Strip buildings of varying sizes are particularly prominent along the main frontages , some with additions to the rear , others with internal partitions , presumably providing the domestic and workshop accommodation for local craftsmen to judge from excavation in the suburbs . |
| 18 | Where a company is engaged in more than one kind of business , it is not unusual for significant differences to arise from year to year between the separate segments . |