Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frozen cooked and peeled prawns are down to £2.99 from £4.99 . |
| 2 | A crippling recruitment and retention crisis has seen BR lose vital engineering staff to better paid jobs for example in British Telecom and Mercury , where senior technicians ' rates are up to £60 a week more . |
| 3 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 4 | The fines are up to £1,000 and the provision arises as a result of the introduction of police cameras on roads which provide evidence of offences such as speeding or jumping traffic lights where the police are in possession of the vehicle number but not the name of the driver . |
| 5 | Fines for a car are up to £1,000 ; for a lorry , up to £25,000 . |
| 6 | For gilts and other fixed interest securities the costs are up to £15,000 , £15 ; and over £15,000 , £30 . |
| 7 | A Direct Line home insurance policy is approved by all the leading Building Societies and standard rates are up to 20% lower than those of other leading insurers . |
| 8 | On balance , traditional methods of training are up to 40% more expensive than the open learning techniques such as those practised by the Open Business School . |
| 9 | Texas Instruments Inc cut suggested retail prices on its personal computers by $100 to $700 : the TravelMate WinSLC is cut 5% to $1,900 and the TM4000 Win models are up to $700 cheaper ; it also introduced a new Travelmate 4000 model , with an 80486 microprocessor , at $3,100 . |
| 10 | Holstein yields are up to 1,000kg higher than those of Friesian types in Britain and the butterfat content is now similar . |
| 11 | ‘ Before , the tariffs did n't reflect our demand patterns , and the savings averaged have been up to 20% over what they would have been . ’ |
| 12 | Profits for the six months to August are expected to be down to £8 million compared with more than £9 million in the same spell a year ago . |
| 13 | Shoes now priced at £56.95 will be £26.95 , others at £72.95 will be down to £32.95 . |
| 14 | Mr Wendt 's take-home pay could be down to £828,345 against £1.1 million under the Tories . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we should be down to 1min 15secs or below . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah well I , I think er of more value would be just to people here present going away , and between now and the seminar on the eighth or ninth is actually trying to get the negatives . |
| 17 | Where rifting occurs over a mantle plume the sub-lithospheric mantle will be up to 200°C hotter than normal and large quantities of magma will be generated . |
| 18 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 19 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |
| 20 | Heels could be up to 10cm high and toes were as rounded as the ever-popular clog . |
| 21 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 22 | In any policy , medical and repatriation cover should be up to £250,000 when holidaying in Europe , unlimited for the USA and £500,000 for the rest of the world . |
| 23 | Their expenses can be up to £126 a day , plus the cost of first-class travel from their home . |
| 24 | There prices can be up to £1,000 . |
| 25 | The cost of acquiring the building could be up to £2.5m and converting into a 3,000seater arena , hosting judo , volleyball and handball , could cost the same again . |
| 26 | This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills . |
| 27 | The penalty under the latter section may of course be up to 100% of the undeclared tax as opposed to the pay and file penalties of £100 , £200 plus 10% or 20% of underpaid tax . |
| 28 | The bombshell means that when bills go out next April , thousands could be up to £340 out of pocket . |
| 29 | They can be up to 200ft ( 60m ) in diameter and are mostly constructed of stones , with a rim , and spokes radiating out from a central cairn . |
| 30 | The Fish Louse ( Argulus ) can be up to 10mm across and looks like a tiny flatfish . |