Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
| 2 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 3 | The reason for his agonising experience was an injured knee which kept his time down to a modest four hours 32 seconds . |
| 4 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 5 | They reached the auto-route du Soleil and settled down to a steady ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 6 | He grew up to a lithe 5 feet 11¼ inches and 10½ stone . |
| 7 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 8 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast to mark the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 9 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
| 10 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 11 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 12 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 13 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 14 | Vaillant Thermocompact wall-hung gas boiler models VC 112E and 182E are now fully approved — BSI Kitemarked and British Gas service listed — for installations with flues up to a nominal five metres in length . |
| 15 | And if the consultant decides an operation is required , as routine patients , they could face another wait of up to a further 2 years . |
| 16 | Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group ! |