Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 2 | The boy , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , appeared before Swindon Youth Court for sentencing on twenty-one offences ranging from shoplifting to assaulting police . |
| 3 | Their teams will be pitting their skills against competitors from around the world — including a 200-strong team of Russian businessmen and women — in 22 sports ranging from softball to dragonboat racing . |
| 4 | Over 50,000 people gathered in response to a opposition call to mobilize for the victory of democracy . |
| 5 | In their distinctly separate ways both the market model and the CAPM have taken the rather cumbersome analysis developed by Markowitz and the CML model developed by Tobin to a point which is of practical use for professional portfolio management . |
| 6 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 7 | Group pre-tax profits to 30 June increased from £7.11m to £9.22m on turnover ahead just 3 per cent to £181m . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 9 | Trading profits for the six months increased from £6.9million to £8.36million , but profit from property sell-offs fell and interest charges jumped from £32,000 to £461,000 , leaving pre-tax profits just £274,000 ahead at £9.4million . |
| 10 | The Dublin player 's sending off for kicking Donegal midfielder Brian Murray in the National League final was of course deserved , and his six months ban in proportion to his offence . |
| 11 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 12 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 13 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 14 | The raid took 10 weeks to plan after complaints to local beat officers . |
| 15 | In 1991 profits fell from £314m to £151m and in 1992 it halved again to £77m . |
| 16 | Despite defeat Bredbury stay top though second placed Styal closed the gap with a six wicket win at home to Hale Barnes , who were dismissed for 129 . |
| 17 | The objective to funding from the old objective programme is we 've now learnt that we 've been successful in getting a grant made towards the Centre feasibility study , Shropshire welcomes Japan television advertisement on the Japanese , Japan area , towards the pipeworks promotion and the fly-drive marketing initiative because , er , to get people from North America into the marches and staying here , so it looks as those projects will be almost fifty percent funded from Europe to objective two . |
| 18 | All the three daytime trains from Dhronachalam to Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh bring with them a garland of firewood bundles strung outside carriage windows . |
| 19 | Thus it is possible for one of these three Conventions to apply in relation to a purely internal supply-contract in which goods move from one place in a State to another place in the same State pursuant to a contract concluded by acts of offer and acceptance entirely within that State . |
| 20 | This power is still available to the police today and three questions arise in relation to it : first , what is the meaning of breach of the peace ? ; secondly , when may the police act ? ; and thirdly , what may they do ? |
| 21 | Membership may be given if a writer has had three works recorded for sale to the public which have been released by a recognized recording label lone which is registered in the Music Master catalogue ) . |
| 22 | Their abolition marked the beginnings of an enormous growth in the number of titles published as well as a reduction in cover prices : in 1855 , most of the metropolitan dailies were priced at 5d , by 1870 prices ranged from ½d to 3d , with one at 4d . |
| 23 | There are no rough edges : the three men and three women drift from solo to duet to ensemble with seamless ease . |
| 24 | Series 7000 systems range from $14,000 to $70,000 . |
| 25 | Series 7000 systems range from $14,000 to $70,000 , depending on the number of main processors . |
| 26 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 27 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 28 | He also presented a large collection of fig trees to Chelsea , from which Miller tested the fruit and listed fourteen varieties ripening from July to late September . |
| 29 | June 16 : Navion 4 OO–NIQ crashed on approach to Wevelgem and written-off . |
| 30 | Just before the war about a hundred thousand passengers flew from Britain to the Continent and they were mostly businessmen , not tourists . |