Example sentences of "[verb] to [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 2 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 3 | Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years . |
| 4 | Continue exercise programme , increasing swimming to twenty lengths , walking to twenty minutes . |
| 5 | HOMELESS charity Shelter apologised yesterday for sending out mock repossession notices to 32,000 families . |
| 6 | For NEC , the order means an increase by one third on the current installed base of top end ACOS 3800 mainframes , bringing the total installed to 126 units , and making the ACOS 3800 much more successful than the previous top-end ACOS generation , of which only 46 were sold . |
| 7 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 8 | Pound up : The pound rose to 1.5230 dollars and 2.4829 marks from 1.5182 dollars and 2.4655 marks at the previous close . |
| 9 | The aim to clear applications within six weeks was achieved from August to December 1990 but the backlog then rose to eight weeks as applications increased . |
| 10 | Membership rose to 836 firms ( v 831 ) . |
| 11 | For 5 guineas a year or a single donation of 50 guineas , the allowance rose to 3 in-patients and 2 out-patients . |
| 12 | The speed , which had been about 150 knots prior to the bird strikes , had dropped to 135 knots . |
| 13 | At the par-five second , his third shot hit the pin and dropped to two feet . |
| 14 | Woosnam had problems on the greens and dropped to six shots off the pace after a 72 . |
| 15 | Singh totalled 136 as he continued to outshine Welshman Ian Woosnam , who had dropped to six shots off the pace after a 72 . |
| 16 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |
| 17 | Leeds have now dropped to 40-1 outsiders to retain the title and manager Howard Wilkinson admitted morosely : ‘ At the start of the season I never imagined we would be in a situation like this going into Christmas . |
| 18 | In 1950 it had dropped to 50 cents per million units . |
| 19 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 20 | Arms cuts , improved verification and clever scaling techniques ( for guessing what a bigger bang would do ) mean that this limit could easily be dropped to 20 kilotons . |
| 21 | Following the 1972 introduction of double-deckers in regular service to Fleetwood , with double the capacity of the single-deckers , the headway dropped to 12 minutes . |
| 22 | Mackworth himself was returned as MP for Shropshire and was active within the House , nominated to sixteen committees between September and December . |
| 23 | During an experiment , the air in the cellar is compressed to 3 pounds per square inch ( about 21 kilonewtons per square metre ) and the table floats . |
| 24 | For the determination of total carnitine , 150 ml of ammonia ( 33% ) was added to two tubes and incubated for an hour at 37°C . |
| 25 | EXAMPLE Calculate the maximum volume of C02 at s.t.p. that can be obtained when dilute hydrochloric acid is added to 10 grams of calcium carbonate . |
| 26 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 27 | ii The National Study of Health and Growth ( NSHG ) , a surveillance study including , each year , around 9000 children aged 5–11 years , has previously reported results relating to two effects of passive smoking in children : firstly , a possible negative relation between children 's height and the reported number of cigarettes smoked by parents in the home , and secondly , a dose-response relation between prevalence of respiratory symptoms and parental smoking . |
| 28 | This certainly overstated the decline , but records for the whole county between 1965 and 1970 showed a general recovery , and during this period there were breeding season records from 97 sites relating to 44 pairs and 53 single birds . |
| 29 | Otherwise between 1948 and 1976 there were 20 records relating to 21 birds : in January ( two ) , February ( one ) , March ( two ) , April ( one ) , May ( one ) , September ( six , relating to seven birds ) , October ( three ) , and November ( three ) . |
| 30 | Otherwise between 1948 and 1976 there were 20 records relating to 21 birds : in January ( two ) , February ( one ) , March ( two ) , April ( one ) , May ( one ) , September ( six , relating to seven birds ) , October ( three ) , and November ( three ) . |