Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year .
2 Tickets for the Opens are £10 , with entry £30 for the big-money Classic , which promises £1,500 to the winner down to £100 for seventh , and 16 £50 section prizes .
3 The caddies ' prizes for the 18 entrants were £1 , for the winner down to 2s. 0d. , and a club supplied by the Professional for the best behaved caddie .
4 This brings the up-front price of the last remaining single-bedroom apartment down to £39,960 .
5 WORLDWIDE UNDERWRITING LOSS DOWN TO $129.6M FROM $162.2M
6 It was bi-pod mounted , which kept its weight down to 11kg/25lb , so increasing its mobility .
7 They operate a 24 hour call-out scheme and charges range from £55 for cremation only to £85 for clients who want the ashes .
8 Keeping the maximum depth of cut down to 0.5mm means the motor is not strained , however .
9 His short-term measures to reduce expenditure brought the figure down to £1,420 million .
10 ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it .
11 Brigadier Andrew Cumming said that although the troops ' primary role would be to get aid through to people desperately in need , they would attempt to adapt their peace-keeping experiences elsewhere in the world to the current crisis .
12 I 'll go along with some radical improvement to the turbo-ram-jet engine concept ; perhaps a boost in top speed up to Mach 3.5 , even 4 at a stretch of the imagination .
13 A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch .
14 of the costs of the professional fees required to mount a bid up to £65,000 — that is , a maximum of £48,750 .
15 Your policy entitles you to have the use of a hired saloon car up to 1600cc from our authorised suppliers depot , subject to availability , if your car is off the road due to damage or theft insured under this policy .
16 A large Emmenthal wheel may weight up to 80kg/200lb .
17 Under the government 's new Rent-a-Room scheme , tenants and owner-occupiers who let furnished rooms in their only of main home may now be excused tax on rent up to £3,250 .
18 Nevertheless , a further deletion up to nt -488 lowers the CAT activity to 40% of the control values and shortening the promoter up to nt -451 reduces transcriptional activity to about 2% of the controls .
19 Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another .
20 Secondly , the stability of the protein up to 60°C ( data not shown ) agrees with values reported for hTFIIA ( 12 , 23 ) .
21 You can get a grant for loft insulation up to 150mm if you have less than 50mm .
22 ‘ You take this horse back to headquarters . ’
23 The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits .
24 Only as the Holy Spirit takes the ‘ foolish ’ message of the gospel home to people 's hearts , and convinces them of its truth ; that it is indeed ‘ the wisdom of God to every one who believes ’ ( 1 Cor. 1 : 18ff ) .
25 Suitable for use both indoors and out , with a range up to 50m , the new Courier chime enables the presence of visitors at the front door to be signalled clearly to homeowners no matter where they are located , whether in the house or garden .
26 According to the instruction leaflet , each letter corresponds to approximately 100°C , giving the gun a heating range up to 600°C .
27 Obviously for us walkers weight is all important so a good compromise is a telephoto lens with a range up to 300mm — the Sigma 75mm–300mm lens for example weighs an easily manageable 22.6oz .
28 A finance director in a medium-sized company would earn up to £75,000 , an internal auditor up to £60,000 and a tax specialist up to £70,000 .
29 A dismissed employee who makes a successful claim is eligible for a tax-free cash sum by way of compensation up to £4560 on a basic award and up to £8000 on a compensatory award .
30 A public inquiry that could cost the London Regeneration consortium and Camden Council up to £4 million each .
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