Example sentences of "to [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a typical day , Macci 's students go to classes from 7.30 am to 1.15 pm ( they substitute their physical education classes with tennis ) . |
| 2 | The Welsh Highland ( 1964 ) Company warmly welcomes the proposal not least since it avoids conflict with our plans to rebuilt Northwards from our existing base in Porthmadog towards Beddgelert and Rhyd-ddu . |
| 3 | That is down to little else but bad luck . |
| 4 | Second , because the ‘ state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort ’ amounted to little enough . |
| 5 | The Lions had squeezed in two light training sessions amounting to little more than two hours before beating France 29-27 on Wednesday night in a game as grand as its occasion . |
| 6 | British Petroleum is taking a lead in advising Hungarian ( and Czech ) industry on what to do about large-scale redundancies in a country where unemployment has been limited by law to little more than 5 per cent . |
| 7 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 8 | Staffing was cut drastically , from almost 280,000 to little more than 200,000 . |
| 9 | They were plucked by two thirds to little more than £2 million . |
| 10 | Yields on shorter-dated instruments have fallen , from something over 8% for a three-month Treasury bill to little more than 3% . |
| 11 | Current Mexican trade with Central America amounted to little more than 0.01 per cent of total trade , due to the high tariffs , lack of export diversity and past conflicts in the region . |
| 12 | I could 've walked off with one to eleven there . |
| 13 | Adjourned accordingly at one minute to Eleven o'clock . |
| 14 | Adjourned accordingly at sixteen minutes to Eleven o'clock . |
| 15 | Adjourned accordingly at thirteen minutes to Eleven o'clock . |
| 16 | Adjourned at seven minutes to Eleven o'clock . |
| 17 | Adjourned accordingly at seven minutes to Eleven o'clock . |
| 18 | Well , it 's just coming up to eleven o'clock , who have n't we heard from , er , right , you 've been very very quiet there . |
| 19 | they 're blaming er parents are blaming school teachers about the kids , now where I live kids are running around up to eleven o'clock at night sometimes , it 's not the teachers to blame it 's the parents |
| 20 | and the other one never got back , he said he 'd ring up to eleven o'clock last night , half past ten |
| 21 | It 's because the erm , we ca n't really let , let the balance go to low especially if we 've got the A G M coming up or probably be erm something . |
| 22 | I mean , we only go to eight normally on a , a Friday and Saturday . |
| 23 | Some of the have passed test but they have n't quite got to eight yet , so erm . |
| 24 | The night porters usually work eight p.m. to eight a.m. shift , performing all the duties that the day porters would be required to do . |
| 25 | count them out , oh you 're down to eight now ? |
| 26 | For more than twenty years , Rockwell 's work has been shown in the Norman Rockwell Museum , a small white clapboard house on the main street of picturesque Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where visitors grew from 5,000 people in 1969 to 160,000 today . |
| 27 | The argument is that while elements of culture are not directly , eternally or exclusively tied to specific economically determined factors such as class position , they are determined in the final instance by such factors , through the operation of articulating principles which are tied to class position . |
| 28 | According to the historian Polybius , the founding of Rome occurred at an Olympiad dating corresponding to 750 BC . |
| 29 | ‘ During the Bronze Age — 2,500 to 750 BC the first metal objects appeared in Wimbledon . ’ |
| 30 | The oldest known horoscope goes back to 410 BC when Babylonia was part of the Persian empire . |