Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight clubs tied to an electronic stadium advertising deal stymied Bass and the rump of 14 are concerned at the influence of an elite eight . |
| 2 | More than 700 applicants responded to a recent marketing director job ad , underlining the extent to which the recession has hit top management . |
| 3 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 4 | The 49 sucklers sold to a top price of £1,460 and £1,300 for pedigree Charolais cows and bull calves at foot presented by P McAllister , Glenarm . |
| 5 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 6 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 7 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 8 | After three years fostered to a kindly couple who treated her as their own , she went back to live with her mother . |
| 9 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 10 | In the two financial years 1987-88 and 1988-89 , the council had been involved in 592 deals amounting to a notional £6,052.5m . |
| 11 | However , the most important point to note is that the B II conformations lead to a poorer correlation with the NMR data in all cases . |
| 12 | If we compare the copy of the Pinturicchio — excellent though it may be — with the paintings owned by American collector Philip Lehman , we have to admit that Joni 's abilities , over a period of ten years developed to a remarkable extent . |
| 13 | In all , 29 teams contributed to a grand total of £16,200 raised by nuclear industry organisations , including AEA technology , NNC and Nuclear Electric . |
| 14 | Ironically , the Stag 's reputation as an expensive liability is rooted in the three-litre , 145-horsepower engine — effectively two four-cylinder Dolomite/Saab 99 units siamesed to a common crankshaft — that is germane to the car 's appeal . |
| 15 | Needing a well-earned drink after the afternoon 's work , ten or twelve dykes repaired to a nearby bar . |
| 16 | Plastic additives will become more expensive over the next five years according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan . |
| 17 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 18 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 19 | ‘ We do a kit of plans and key parts for £350 , or a kit that needs only 40 hours to get to a bare hull for £1,800 . |
| 20 | All 60 delegates responded to a short self administered questionnaire . |
| 21 | One of the longest trials in English criminal history ended on Aug. 28 , after 107 days in court , when three of the four defendants in the so-called Guinness scandal case were given prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court , following their conviction on 28 charges relating to an illegal share support scheme involving more than £15,000,000 of covert payments . |
| 22 | For precisely two minutes explain to an imaginary senior manager what your report is all about . |
| 23 | Fears of flooding , explosion , fire or a terrorist attack are just four reasons pointing to a big boycott when the tunnel opens in autumn 1993 . |
| 24 | The slight indecency of nakedness , emphasized by her stockings , four times suspended to an elastic girdle , bothered her . |
| 25 | Although the two countries agreed to an unprecedented meeting of their Premiers in September , the negotiations quickly assumed a familiar pattern with each side seeming to make offers which it knew that the other would reject . |
| 26 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 27 | The eggs are pale yellow in colour and over the next four days darken to a deep brown just before they are due to hatch . |
| 28 | There two ways to upgrade to a 386 — by adding a coprocessor card and by replacing the motherboard . |
| 29 | One of the products is helium-3 which consists of the two protons bound to a single neutron ; the spare neutron from the original gang of four particles speeds off . |
| 30 | You two girls went to an American school for a while and were puzzled by the American accent . |