Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sicilian wealth and power was coveted both by outside powers and by Syracuse , the greatest polis of Sicily down to Roman times . |
| 2 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 3 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 4 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 5 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 6 | Newton 's account of his discovery of the true nature of light and colour has , however , as Professor Hall comments in new biography , ‘ misled posterity down to recent times ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 8 | The wooden houses off Blackfriars Street , already referred to ( p. 51 ) , were ultimately rebuilt at least twice in masonry , and it is interesting to observe that there was little change in the original property boundaries through to post-Roman times , despite changes in use . |
| 9 | In the limit B 0 , the complex map can be approximated by the real noninvertible map where I = E. Introduction of a finite value for augments the left side of the above by a term , and the index n gives over to continuous time t . |
| 10 | Where are you off to this time ? |
| 11 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 12 | Independent tests put the levels at up to 3,000 times the limit . |
| 13 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 14 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |
| 15 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 16 | In a separate publication1 , I feel that I have shown that the inter-reaction processes involved when two dominant forms of ion are present can cause one ion form to screen the geomagnetic field effective on the other form to bring about a resonance at a frequency of up to 1.5 times higher that that for a single ion . |
| 17 | She was not alone , of course , in making the unwarranted assumption that an unruly Scots noble was in some way a fundamentally different and far more dangerous animal than an unruly French , or English , one ; generations of historians , up to modern times , have seriously distorted the history of Scotland by taking exactly that view . |
| 18 | The battle between graziers and agriculturists continued up to modern times , but in less dramatic wrangles between village councils , which preferred cultivators , and the larger owners who favoured the more reliable rents of the cattle and sheep men . |
| 19 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 20 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 21 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 22 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 23 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 24 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 25 | That 's that that up to recent times was happening in . |
| 26 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 27 | According to studies by the Water Research Centre , PAHs leached from the insides of old London water mains are present at up to five times the EC limit of 0.2 ug/litre . |
| 28 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 29 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 30 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |