Example sentences of "[adv] to a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was authentic scrumpy , rather sharp and very strong — especially to a 10 year old . |
| 2 | Asa took her down to a thousand , then five hundred feet , and the Yak , hungry for the kill , stayed on his tail . |
| 3 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 4 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 5 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 6 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 7 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 8 | Over 130 sat down to a five course meal and afterwards danced to the music of Scarhill Sound under leader Jim Drysdale of RoyScot Factors . |
| 9 | He has two VCs , one from each of the two cameras , and he 'd like to pare this down to a 5 min promo . |
| 10 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 11 | The blade is 7 inches long , and only 1.5 inches wide at the handle , tapering down to a 0.75 inch point . |
| 12 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |
| 13 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 14 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 15 | The project suddenly became interesting when they were forcing deuterium in to a 1 cm 3 block of palladium ( ‘ charging the palladium ’ ) by means of a 1.5 amp electrical current . |
| 16 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |
| 17 | Real business remained very slack and , with Wall Street heading south in the afternoon , the Footsie slipped in to a 2404.2 point close , up 3.3 . |
| 18 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 19 | England raced away to a 6–0 lead in the first 15 minutes , and only good saves by goalkeeper Karen Owen throughout the match averted disaster for Wales . |
| 20 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 21 | I use a 300gsm Arches rough cotton watercolour paper , and brushes ranging from a no3 for detailed work through to a one inch for broad colour washes . |
| 22 | The company dates back to the so-called Ever-sharp pencil invented in 1915 , through to a 1960s desktop computer and now a liquid crystal television display . |
| 23 | Starkisser had to have cost him close to a hundred thousand US dollars , and the Lucaya penthouse apartment , with its private docks and its view towards Silver Point Beach , probably cost ten times as much . |
| 24 | Close to a million are now out of work , 8 per cent of the workforce . |
| 25 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 26 | Jimmy Adams , too , who must have pushed match-award adjudicator Everton Weekes close to a three way split , sat head bowed in the dressing-room , contemplating the following week 's engagement at Eppleton in the Durham Senior League . |
| 27 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 28 | Now he was off to a nine p.m. to one a.m . |
| 29 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 30 | Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend . |