Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealand improved on its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the six months up from $5.4m to $6.2m . |
| 2 | The wait would be well worth it for such a blind release ; and in this motley crowd , drawn from a dozen hamlets outside in addition to the town , her companion was nameless and faceless as a hunted man could wish to be . |
| 3 | Knighted ten years ago for services to architecture Richards edited The Architectural Review for almost 40 years . |
| 4 | Estimated deficit at the nine months up from $20.3m to $30.2m , following losses of $7.4m from Hurricane Andrew' in Q3 . |
| 5 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 6 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |
| 7 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 8 | It is all too simplistic to explain political developments in late 1930s Japan purely by reference to an inherent susceptibility to authoritarianism in socio-economic relations in the village . |
| 9 | A good fight back for Witney today in the southern division of the Beezer Homes League ; they were two goals down at home to Yate Town , but the match finished Witney two , Yate Town two , our reporter , Adrian Burcher . |
| 10 | For a people who pride themselves on their love of animals , and considering the age-old human dependence on animals for food and work and as pets , it seems strange that a college to train veterinary surgeons in this country was only established two hundred years ago in response to a plan proposed by a Frenchman . |
| 11 | BANGOR moved two points closer to promotion to Senior I with a victory over Down in Downpatrick . |
| 12 | Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) . |