Example sentences of "[adv prt] to six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early coaches went via Lewes but a new turnpike through Cuckfield in the later 1770s speeded up the journey considerably and the trip was down to six hours by 1820 . |
| 2 | He nodded and departed , and I relayed the request to the barman who shook his head and said he was down to six cubes . |
| 3 | The president of the AIF , Carl Walske , says : ‘ The challenge of the industry and the [ Nuclear Regulatory Commission ] is to squeeze construction time down to six years as a rule , rather than the exception . ’ |
| 4 | The final round on the Grand Union Canal at Broadmead Bridge was fished by 26 competiors who had to smash through ice up to six inches thick . |
| 5 | When mature the cap forms a pale pink flat disc up to six inches across . |
| 6 | Rings of thin vertical vanes up to six inches deep , centred around the pillar , cover the ceiling like a diffusing grid in a giant lamp-shade . |
| 7 | erm We have to study the atmosphere at very levels , say , from the ground , up to six inches above the ground . |
| 8 | Say speak , speak up to six notes and he thinks he 's |
| 9 | You may submit up to six paintings , which must be executed using W&N Oil , Griffin Alkyd or Acrylic colour . |
| 10 | Breeding is confined to Ashdown Forest , where up to six pairs have bred recently , and one area of north-west Sussex , where there are one or two pairs . |
| 11 | In Open events there can be up to 36 fences — a combination of natural hazards such as water , rails and ditches of up to four feet six inches high ; hedges of up to six feet high and specially built fences like steps and tyres . |
| 12 | The walls were up to six feet thick . |
| 13 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 14 | In the first week after the birth , she can safely leave her litter of up to six cubs , though more usually three , hidden in the den and helpless to move around on their own , while she hunts . |
| 15 | From 18 metres up to six metres , the ascent rate warning will flash if you exceed 13 metres/minute , and from six metres to the surface you should not exceed a very safe nine metres per minute . |
| 16 | Parts of the British coastline are being eroded at rates of up to six metres a year — but coastal defences , used to combat erosion , may be causing problems elsewhere on the coast . |
| 17 | Established in 1987 , and called out up to six times a day in the summer , the service has completed more than 3,000 missions with the running costs of £500,000 a year met entirely from donations . |
| 18 | The timing control allows your heating to come on up to six times a day , with each time set at a different temperature . |
| 19 | Even safe and necessary medicines sell for up to six times as much in poor countries as they do in the country of manufacture . |
| 20 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 21 | He now needed to learn his tables up to six times and also be able to do multiplication , addition , subtraction and division , tens and units , shillings and pence and have a basic knowledge of simple weights and lengths . |
| 22 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 23 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 24 | The Series 4000 Tape Array can back up a 30Gb database overnight without operator assistance , claims DG , and is up to six times faster than conventional devices . |
| 25 | So what they decided to do , they would accept the clinical grading appeals which says that a panel can be up to six members , of three members of management and three members of trade unions . |
| 26 | The 200MHz DEC 10000 Mainframe-Class System also comes with up to six CPUs , the only performance marks offered are 196.5 SPECfp92 and 106.9 SPECint92 . |
| 27 | NORTH-EASTERN FRANCE ( Pas-de-Calais , Nord ) , BELGIUM and HOLLAND Folkestone–Boulogne : up to six returns daily . |
| 28 | Ostend Ferries : P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has up to six sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Ostend , crossing time four hours ; a 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 depending on sailing . |
| 29 | It brings a fleet of seven 44-seater British Aerospace aircraft to Liverpool , each of which can carry up to six tonnes of freight . |
| 30 | He suffered from hypothermia and the pain in his hands was such it would take him up to six minutes ‘ just to have a pee ’ . |