Example sentences of "[num] [adj] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ponomarev 's calculation implied that there were 100 million to a billion fusions per second , that is 100 to 1000 in a muon 's lifetime , if nothing else ( such as sticking ) intervened . |
| 2 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |
| 3 | Sources will be gas at temperatures of ten thousand to a million degrees ; they should include streamers of gas in double star systems , remains of old supernovae , and hot white dwarf stars . |
| 4 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 5 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |