Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more .
2 erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment .
3 He obviously had to get him up f erm sort of rolled him over er one way then the other to be of but the er the legs of the jeans on .
4 About two weeks later the moult to L4 takes place , further migration then occurs in the liver and , by 6-8 weeks post-infection , larvae can be found subperitoneally around the hepatorenal ligament .
5 In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan .
6 ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . )
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