Example sentences of "[adv prt] to ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |
| 2 | Cut down to ten cigarettes per day . |
| 3 | And then it coul com cut down to ten days . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 've just joined us , ’ the commentator 's voice droned , ‘ there 's no score in this all important match but England can be admired for holding their own , down to ten men and against a Moroccan team that 's used to the sort of heat … ’ |
| 5 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 6 | Up to this point as I said Leeds had been on top — this included a period when Hodge was off the field after colliding with a Crewe player and injuring his wrist , thus Leeds were down to ten men . |
| 7 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 8 | Emotions then ran high , and by the 62nd minute Chester were also down to ten men when Barrow lashed out at Toman in a tussle for the ball and was booked . |
| 9 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 10 | Rain fell , and the temperature went down to ten degrees Celsius . |
| 11 | Behind the rear seats a generous eight-cubic-foot luggage area has hatches in its back wall to allow stowage of slim freight up to ten feet long . |
| 12 | In some areas of the swamp there are growths of small evergreen trees up to ten feet in height . |
| 13 | Once , in the winter of 1983 , the snow had drifted up to ten feet around the prison walls ; teams of prisoners working virtually round the clock had been unable to keep open the single road that linked Whitely with the outside world . |
| 14 | In 1991 , animal campaigners telephoned Central South saying they had planted up to ten bombs in Oxford University labs in protest against animal experiments . |
| 15 | Each patch can contain up to ten effects , plus whatever 's in the external effects loop . |
| 16 | The financial commitment of Christian Aid is for up to ten scholarships for a period of three years . |
| 17 | 5 The Artist may be required to attend for up to ten hours per day . |
| 18 | 5 The Artist may be required to attend for up to ten hours per day . |
| 19 | And it will bring blessed relief from your personal nightmare for up to ten hours . |
| 20 | The player also offers up to ten hours continuous playing time if two additional rechargeable batteries are added to the basic pair , which themselves provide up to two-and-a-half hours play . |
| 21 | The dalang may perform for up to ten hours without a break , while singing and speaking in different voices for each of as many as 125 different shadow-puppet characters . |
| 22 | When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses , at the rate of 10–100 per second for up to 10 seconds , they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus , persisting for up to ten hours . |
| 23 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 24 | An ex-Army sergeant from Bedale , he told last year of using the conversation lines for up to ten hours at a time . |
| 25 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 26 | Killer whales are up to ten metres in length and can easily be identified by their black — and white colour and the high dorsal fin of the males . |
| 27 | The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence . |
| 28 | It was five weeks before she would regularly go for the chick along the line , and even then she 'd often wait for up to ten minutes to make up her mind . |
| 29 | This labour-intensive process can take up to ten minutes , and has to be completed before news-hungry outsiders such as Bloomberg get to see the results . |
| 30 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |