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

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1 It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work .
2 But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling .
3 Commuters can expect delays on the Northern Lane service tonight due to a technical problems at Sandhills and an incident at Moorfields .
4 It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions .
5 From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability .
6 He informed Wilner that he had calculated the energy that would be released and it was over a million kilojoules , equivalent to a thousand grams of dynamite .
7 These have maximum ranges of 2000 km and 4100 km respectively , and they each carry a single warhead with a yield of one megaton ( equivalent to a million tonnes of TNT ) .
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