Example sentences of "[adv prt] to eight [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These games whittled the teams down to eight men 's teams and four from each of the other classes . |
| 2 | The gap between them , with those two races remaining , was down to eight points . |
| 3 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 4 | It would have been better to devote the resources given over to eight pages of colour prints to larger reproductions of his seminal black and white images , perhaps treating the reader to duotone to show his tonal range . |
| 5 | Your army may include up to eight Steam Tanks . |
| 6 | A recent assessment estimated that the IRA may still have access to up to eight tons . |
| 7 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 8 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 9 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 10 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 11 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 12 | Canvas covered and drawn by up to eight horses , most of them moved along at walking pace , but some lighter vans or " fly wagons " with more regular change of horses were faster . |
| 13 | Detectives now believe that up to eight members of the 18-strong gang are actually killers who have fired fatal bullets in gun attacks in North Belfast . |
| 14 | The songs contain up to eight themes , each one consisting of repeated phrases . |
| 15 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |
| 16 | Pupils boast of having watched up to eight videos in a day . |
| 17 | Why should LA relax constraints on that particular word when there are other hypotheses covering the same region ? ( i.e. up to eight a ) . |
| 18 | But the storms smashed away parts of the coastline , pushed back the shore by up to eight feet in places and hurled rocks and boulders on to some of the sites and the path walked by visitors . |
| 19 | Up to eight processors and 1,000 users can now be supported on a single server by the StarGroup manager . |
| 20 | SGI says its Irix V.4 operating system , and the MIPS Risc/OS flavour of Unix SVR4 will be merged over the next six to eight months : it expects to have R4000MP multi-processing boxes with up to eight processors out of the door by the end of the year . |
| 21 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 22 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 23 | He could supplement his income by taking up to eight boarders , but he was forbidden to accept any curacy or other parochial duty without the Goldsmiths ' consent . |
| 24 | Its whisper-quiet action can produce up to eight pages of publication quality text , graphics and transparencies a minute . |
| 25 | My weight had gone up to eight stone so at least I was looking relatively human . |
| 26 | Rank has launched a video projection system for around £10000 which will show clear bright pictures on a screen up to eight metres wide . |
| 27 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 28 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 29 | The Speech Server Series supports up to eight user workstations running either OS/2 or AIX on a local area network with an RS/6000 server . |
| 30 | She could save up to eight pounds — yes ! |