Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day .
2 Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 .
3 The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals .
4 This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second .
5 During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind .
6 The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report .
7 In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway .
8 On the information that I have , densities range quite considerably , from as low as ten workers per hectare up to a hundred workers per hectare , but on average somewhere around thirty four , forty three could be taken if one wished to choose an average .
9 The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training .
10 It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town .
11 The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court .
12 Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established .
13 The busiest time is in summer , with up to a thousand covers for three meals a day , seven days a week , which means recruiting up to 20 extra staff .
14 Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth .
15 What is more , introducing PRP for nurses has added anything up to a billion dollars to administrative costs in the US public sector — a figure which may send shudders down the spine of Britain 's cost-conscious NHS .
16 AS PART of the North-West 's contribution to the 1992 ITV Telethon marathon fund-raising campaign , up to a dozen teams of 25 people will be attempting to pull Pacific Duke of Gloucester along a 150 yard stretch of track at Crewe Heritage Centre , on Saturday , July 18 .
17 They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time .
18 On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her .
19 Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated .
20 The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time .
21 Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side .
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