Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Senna also made a brilliant start from eighth on the grid and was swiftly up to fifth and then fourth when he overcame Alesi in a wheel-to-wheel battle down the back section . |
2 | Manuel Caballeros with a 66 had moved menacingly up to fifth place with the little Japanese , Otaki . |
3 | IAN WRIGHT grabbed a superb 73rd-minute winner against his old club Crystal Palace as Arsenal moved menacingly up to third place in the Premier League just a point behind leaders Blackburn . |
4 | Right up to Second World |
5 | The huge increase is partly down to last year 's introduction of the finger-shaped crumpet , the first non-circular one since they first tickled English taste buds in the Middle Ages . |
6 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
7 | I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles . |
8 | I think this is tosh myself , but it 's really up to first ascensionists , so send me details if you wish . |
9 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
10 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
11 | ‘ Which brings us neatly back to last night . ’ |
12 | With the South American championship trophy on the sideboard and the side safely through to next summer 's World Cup finals , it would seem that the Lazaroni system has worked pretty well so far . |