Example sentences of "[verb] to a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 2 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 3 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 4 | when you multiply that one by that one , it 's got to come to a hundred and twenty man days again . |
| 5 | The 4-cylinder 16V DOHC 2259cc engine , mated to a four speed automatic gearbox , can push the 623GSi to a top speed of 134mph and takes 9.5 seconds to reach 60mph . |
| 6 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 7 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |
| 8 | He rose to a 4 star General . |
| 9 | Unemployment rose to a million and inflation got worse , so the government had to reverse many of its policies . |
| 10 | The new school suffered from a degree of excess capacity for quite a number of years : by 1894 the average attendance was 109 , Miss Harris acting as assistant mistress ; she was shortly replaced by Benjamin 's daughter , Minnie Titford , and they were joined by Miss Maud Reading , the infants ' mistress , as the average attendance rose to a hundred and twenty . |
| 11 | James Fanshawe 's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six lengths win from Absalom 's Pillar . |
| 12 | [ Ninety-five US-based multi-national companies ( MNC ) , out of a total of 450 contacted , responded to a 1987 mailed questionnaire ] The above findings suggest an ever increasing usage , sophistication and integration of international environmental scanning activities . |
| 13 | With an underground fire contributing to a 50,000 tonne fall in ore milled at Libanon , losses at the mine jumped from R1.92m to R3.18m . |
| 14 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 15 | Up to five µl of the final cDNA synthesis reaction could be added to a 100 µl PCR reaction without inhibiting amplification . |
| 16 | Then , the solution was added to a 100 mm Petri dish containing 5×10 5 NIH3T3 cells in 10 ml DMEM and 10% calf serum . |
| 17 | For the part-time farmer lack of time was often associated with fatigue , with an hour or two of manual work being added to a 7 to 8 hour working day . |
| 18 | After washing in phosphate buffer saline ( PBS ) , aliquots of 1×10 4 cells were added to a six well tissue culture plate ( Gibco ) . |
| 19 | The architect Clough Williams-Ellis of Port Meirion fame published his influential England and the octopus in 1928 — ‘ an angry book , written by an angry young man ’ as the author confessed in a Preface added to a 1975 edition . |
| 20 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 21 | Now Mr referred to a two percent clear up rate , I 'm not quite certain what figure that is , I know in Wiltshire it 's much better than that in the thirties and forties . |
| 22 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 23 | Lane 1 , Hind III digested λ DNA ( 0.2 µg ) ; lane 2 and 6 , Bam HI- Pst I digested pPYACRC5 DNA ( 0.5 ng ) , ( lane 6 corresponds to a 10 times shorter exposure to autoradiography ) ; lanes 3 to 5 , PstI digested DNA ( 1 µg ) from three unstable pPYACRC5 transformants . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the SeHCAT value corresponds to a seven day elimination of bile acids , whereas the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one only reflects the synthesis at a certain time . |
| 25 | The internal fax was addressed to a dozen civil servants within the Department of Social Security . |
| 26 | Poor Owen Rowlands , the first-day leader , had slumped to a 76 and dropped to sixth place . |
| 27 | World No 2 Parrott , out of form and out of sorts , slumped to a 9-3 defeat and then admitted : ‘ I 'm bushwhacked . ’ |
| 28 | If the sample volume is smaller than this it should be adjusted to 0.5 ml with water and transferred to a 1.5 ml microfuge tube . |
| 29 | It had been sent by e-mail , transferred to a 3.5 ’ floppy disk and as a source of information was useless without specific software and hardware . |
| 30 | Any interesting marks , blemishes and odd shapes on the photographs were transferred to a 1:2500 Ordnance Survey Pathfinder map with a pencil for further reference . |