Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bulgarian leaders raised further objections after up to 100,000 people had held a rally on Feb. 20 in Skopje , capital of Yugoslavia 's Macedonian republic , to show solidarity with Bulgaria 's Macedonians . |
| 2 | She was arrested in Turkey after up to one hundred and thirty thousand pounds disappeared from the charity . |
| 3 | Before entering the trial patients had to show no more than minimal improvement after up to six weeks treatment with haloperidol , in high doses . |
| 4 | In a pair of experiments designed to determine the amount of Ac-ASA remaining intracellularly after up to six washings , the amount of Ac-ASA present intracellularly stayed remarkably constant , following an initial drop which probably represents the removal of major surface contamination ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 5 | No significant difference was found in mean Hamilton score in the 21 item scale for serotonin reuptake inhibitors compared with tricyclic and related antidepressants , after up to eight weeks of treatment ( mean difference 0.13 ; 95% confidence interval -1.01 to 1.28 ) ( fig 1 ) . |
| 6 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 7 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 8 | As Ashton has pointed out , to the extent that the London recipients discounted these from the balances of rural banks , capital was being moved from areas of oversupply to those of greater demand . |
| 9 | Sir David will be briefed about Mrs Thatcher 's talks with President Bush concerning the mandatory repatriation of up to 44,000 Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Elsewhere flocks of 100 to 150 winter regularly near Littlehampton , and flocks of up to 380 , but more usually of 100 to 200 , do so at Rye Harbour ; in both areas rather larger flocks may occur on autumn passage . |
| 11 | The South Korean government remained optimistic that reform would take place in North Korea , and on Jan. 16 , 1990 , announced the setting up of an economic co-operation fund of up to 300,000 million South Korean won ( approximately equivalent to US$440 million as at Jan. 15 , 1990 ) to subsidize companies which traded with North Korea or entered into joint-venture agreements . |
| 12 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 13 | The HP 700/RX stations are claimed to deliver performance of up to 90,000 Xstones , and to be the most powerful X-stations available . |
| 14 | For £9.4m a sensible organisation would expect to buy a fully completed office development of up to 90,000 square feet , equating to £100 a foot completed . |
| 15 | The two new servers using the 7100 are the HP 9000 Models 887S and 897S , with performance ratings of up to 184 transactions per second . |
| 16 | They face new rates of up to 16 per cent . |
| 17 | The product , the Space Paper , was one of the first to offer remote control of up to 16 electrical devices anywhere in your home , by signals transmitted through the house wiring . |
| 18 | A pair of golden eagles may defend a territory of up to 16 square miles , living there in splendid detachment from the remainder of their species . |
| 19 | The Decision 386/40 kit , based on MD 's 40Mhz 386DXL and available with either a 5.25 or 3.5 floppy , is designed for application developers and small business workgroup environments of up to 16 users . |
| 20 | As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor . |
| 21 | On April 20 the Higher Court of Justice overturned the December 1991 rulings of the Higher Military Court of Justice on members of the former Romanian Communist Party politburo ; the original sentences on manslaughter charges were cancelled and the charges , in connection with the suppression of the December 1989 uprising in Timisoara , were changed to complicity in or attempted " aggravated murder " ; sentences of up to 16 years in prison were handed down . |
| 22 | Colour display systems available for personal computers such as the IBM VGA allow the use of up to 16 colours ( light and dark versions of the primary colours red , green and blue together with their combinations — yellow , cyan and magenta — plus black and white ) at a resolution of 640 x 480 , or 256 colours at a reduced screen resolution of 320 x 200 . |
| 23 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 24 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 25 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 26 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 27 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 28 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 29 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 30 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |