Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During June 1843 , Thomas , William and Adam Barrow , Thomas Grigg , James Bell , John Speddy and the Adventurers ' Team , carted a total of 606 tons 17 cwt. 3 qrs. @ 2/4 per ton down to the quay from where Benjamin Dixon and his assistants boated it down the lake at 10d. a ton . |
| 2 | Even after 1857 , when divorce came easier , the numbers involved were not large , averaging about 600 per year up to the start of the First World War . |
| 3 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 4 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
| 5 | The police action brought thousands of protestors back to the centre of Bucharest . |
| 6 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |
| 7 | Oxfam has cancelled a charity pop concert amid fears that it would attract thousands of travellers back to the Malvern Hills , the scene of last month 's illegal Bank Holiday festival . |
| 8 | After his big concert , Van invited dozens of Soviets back to the hotel , where we ate chocolates and caviar and drank local champagne . |