Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 2 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 3 | As a result of improved reporting of unfit conduct by Official Receivers and insolvency practitioners , the number rose by 40% to 700 in the 12 months to 31 March 1992 . |
| 4 | He believes that up to 300 of the 2,000 priests who threatened to leave will actually do so . |
| 5 | Articles Twenty-Nine to Thirty-One of the Thirty-Nine Articles denied transubstantiation but were ambiguous about the real presence , while the 1559 Prayer Book combined the formula used in 1549 to imply a physical presence with that of 1552 which was meant to indicate commemoration only . |
| 6 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 7 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 8 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |
| 9 | Pulse rates , which stood at 70 to 80 before that moment in the bar , and rose to 90 to 100 during the earlier phases of arousal , now stand at around 130 . |
| 10 | How do you rate your parents ' ( or substitute model ) marriage on a scale of to 10 in the following areas ( 10 being the highest ) : |
| 11 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |
| 12 | McMahon was involved in the build-up to three of the four goals and also came out a clear winner in what was , at times , a bad-tempered midfield confrontation with Batty and McAllister . |
| 13 | Reinforced by troops from the sizeable Japanese army in Korea , which crossed into Manchuria without obtaining prior permission from the Japanese government , the Guandong Army had extended its occupation to three of the four provinces of Manchuria by 1932 . |
| 14 | The Rawsons ( a brother and sister team ) have worked hard on the property creating a games-room from a garage , an Alpine section in the garden and adding private facilities to three of the five rooms . |
| 15 | The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four . |
| 16 | If the synodic period of Venus were exactly 584 days , the number of revolutions required would be 65 , corresponding to 146 of the 260-day cycles . |
| 17 | Table VIII sets out the range and means of the peak winter counts recorded in the period 1964/65 to 1974/75 for the commoner ducks , in the most important wintering sites in Sussex for which regular figures are available . |
| 18 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 19 | Curators at the Pompidou Centre are anxiously awaiting the results of negotiations between Russian museums and the eighty-nine year old Russian heiress Irina Shchukin over property rights to twenty-five of the 130 paintings in the exhibition ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ running until 21 June . |
| 20 | As we show on page 21 , Labour is now second to the Tories in 186 seats ( compared to 145 for the Liberal Democrats ) . |
| 21 | The DLP won 116 of the 237 seats open to popular election , thereby entitling it to 33 of the 62 seats awarded on the basis of proportional representation , bringing its total in the 299-member Assembly to 149 , one seat sort of an overall majority . |
| 22 | If there were no loss of skeletal elements at all the expected line would cross horizontally at 100% and then dip sharply to zero for the isolated molars ( M ) and incisors ( 1 ) , which would all still be retained in the jaws . |
| 23 | Furthermore , these plateaux coincide with deep minima in the longitudinal voltage , in the direction of current flow , which drops essentially to zero at the critical values of Vg . |
| 24 | After the first two weeks of prednisolone , the daily dosage was steadily reduced to zero over the ensuing weeks . |
| 25 | This division of subjects meant that every individual film was rated by 18 subjects in the judgment phase and by 18 in the recognition phase , appearing to nine of the 18 subjects as a distractor and to the other nine as a target . |
| 26 | As she straightened up , something caught her eye : a wisp of blue thread clinging to one of the tiny plants that somehow managed to exist in the thin soil on top of the cliff . |
| 27 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 28 | An alternative and , in some ways , simpler procedure is to establish some new response to one of the pre-trained stimuli and then , in a separate test phase , to present the other pre-trained stimuli . |
| 29 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 30 | There was still a general assumption that the self-confidence and savoir-faire they conferred were essential in any aspirant to one of the major embassies . |