Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
2 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
3 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
4 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
5 | Critics charged that the change would lead to a greater inequalities in the provision of welfare , but the shift of power back to the states was generally welcomes . |
6 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
7 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
8 | It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions . |
9 | ‘ We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child 's family . |
10 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |
11 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |
12 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
13 | Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated . |
14 | One of the serious limitations is the total interaction time with the microwaves , limited to a few milliseconds by the speed of the atomic beam and by the separation of the two Ramsey regions . |
15 | The level of the solution is then adjusted to a few centimetres above the level of solvent in s by means of a levelling rod 1 . |
16 | And once they 've been picked , cut the foliage back hard to a few centimetres from the crowns to stimulate new growth . |
17 | She fixed her hazel eyes on his and elaborated , smiling , ‘ You could treat yourself to a few trinkets with the change . ’ |
18 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
19 | ‘ Did that swift eclipse torture you ? /A star at eighteen and then — suddenly gone/ down to a few lines in the back page of a teenage annual/oh but I remember you/I looked up to you ’ — ‘ Little Man , What Now ? ’ . |
20 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
21 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
22 | The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology . |
23 | If that is a problem , ( limited to a few versions of the AMI bios ) a full fix involves doing without Stealth in QEMM , which may be a trade off ardent QEMM users do not wish to make . |
24 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
25 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
26 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |