Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 2 | Paris : Eurotunnel was the most active stock and one of the heaviest fallers as the CAC-40 index plunged 29.88 points to 1,876.24 . |
| 3 | The clutching , fondling and tickling is distracting , and characters suffer -5 penalties to Cl , WP , WS and BS here , and a -1 penalty to M . |
| 4 | Whether you lived eight men to a room in partitioned huts or ninety men to a cold stone barn , this remoteness of the outside world was the conditioning factor of prison life . |
| 5 | They lived in 264 houses which averages 5.36 persons to a household . |
| 6 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 7 | She made 2 complaints to the review panel . |
| 8 | He drives 12 miles to work and then has the usual round of home visits . |
| 9 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |
| 10 | Zurich : The index rose 4.5 points to 1,194.3 on selective local and foreign buying . |
| 11 | In the subsequent years England had amassed 149 points to Ireland 's 32 , winning the try count 22–4 . |
| 12 | It is hoped to attract 500 people to each of the two performances and to follow up the event with an ‘ Open Day ’ to be held the next week at which the public will be encouraged to try Medau for themselves . |
| 13 | TOM Thumb schoolboy Steven Green is walking tall — thanks to pioneering leg-stretch operations which have added eight inches to his height . |
| 14 | Many people fit 750 crossplies to Range Rovers . |
| 15 | The Toronto-based Call-Net Telecommunications Ltd wholly-owned unit of Call-Net Enterprises Inc has bought the long-distance business of Cable & Wireless Canada Inc for the equivalent of $27.3m in cash and notes at the closing : the deal adds 7,000 customers to Call-Net 's current customer base , taking its annualised revenues to some $135m . |
| 16 | That is carried fifty votes to thirty six , now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 17 | Paris : Peugeot recovered from its recent weakness , gaining eight francs to 902 on hopes of ending the strike at two plants . |
| 18 | And if a woman ( or man for that matter ) devotes , say eight years to the care of two children , there remain at least thirty more years of outside earning capacity . |
| 19 | The resistance has eight aspects to it : |
| 20 | By the end of July we estimated that the industrial action had added 65,000 patients to the waiting lists in English hospitals alone . |
| 21 | But with earnings up 22 p.c. to 60p a share , the dividend total is being lifted 22 p.c. to 20p , with a 144p final on May 29 . |
| 22 | On 21 February the TVS programme The Real World devoted 30 minutes to holophony and Zuccarelli . |
| 23 | Enter Mr Larson , the well-liked pastor of Seattle 's 3,600-member University Presbyterian Church , who has 22 books to his credit and is witty and literate behind a pulpit . |
| 24 | Earnings are down 19 p.c. to 26.7p a share , but with the benefits of its expansion programme expected to show through , the dividend is being lifted 12 p.c. to 8.7p , with the payment of a 5.8p final . |
| 25 | Staff and fire crews moved 30 patients to safety — there were no injuries . |
| 26 | In Elizabeth 's reign there was a Government campaign to glorify his memory , and Foxe devoted 100 pages to him in his Book of Martyrs . |
| 27 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 28 | Exports rose 6.8 p.c. to a high of $37.8 billion , while imports fell modestly . |
| 29 | Tagged as ‘ Convenient Push-Button control over everything you do in Windows ’ Dashboard is an elegant solution to those cluttered screens after you 've installed umpteen applications to your Windows environment . |
| 30 | He mentioned six years to me ! |