Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 2 | When imaging a surface , researchers bring the fine tip of the STM down to about 1 millionth of a millimetre away from the sample . |
| 3 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 4 | As we drive to McDonald 's , Blake explains that the company can probably only come down to about one p.p.m. zinc , and only then if it spends a lot of money . |
| 5 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 6 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 7 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 8 | So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said . |
| 9 | And also we 've got ta go down to minus one , so we 'll put it there and hope and pray we 've got enough on this time . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that the two old ladies did a little plotting to marry their favourite grandchildren off to on another ; but without the events of 1979 their dearest hopes might never have come to be . |
| 11 | ‘ Hey , ’ cried Michael , ‘ where are you off to with that ? |
| 12 | So once you were road rolling , was you still on that job when you started to make the road up to up Wee Fea ? |
| 13 | That adds up to over two weeks a year , or two years of your life . |
| 14 | The distance between the cusps on shingle beaches is usually of the order of 5 m ( 15 ft ) , but on sandy beaches may be much greater ranging up to over 60 m ( 200 ft ) ( Russell and Macmillan , 1952 ) . |
| 15 | That adds up to over 50 million a year , half of which are performed illegally . |
| 16 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software : the Institute , to be based in Bilbao , Spain , will work with customers on software processes and methodology , according to Compagnie des Machines Bull SA vice-president Georges Grunberg , who is the acting chairman ; the other founders are Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa SA , GMD SA , Eritel SA , Finsiel SA and Iberdrola SA from Spain , British Aerospace Plc , the Electricity Supply Board , Lloyd 's Register and Logica Plc , Sema Group Plc , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , Telecom Ireland , Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ; each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 ; it hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 17 | It hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 18 | It would seem that up until recently ( usually this is specified as up to between 2 and 5 years ago ) individual incomers ( the ‘ soothmoother ’ type ) were assimilated with relative ease into individual social networks centred in neighbourhoods or villages . |
| 19 | Allowing for parliamentary recesses , that adds up to between forty and forty-five Cabinet meetings a year — not a particularly significant statistic if more business is being taken in committees , of which more in a moment . |
| 20 | Each weapon costs $300000 without its warhead , and the production rate will quickly build up to between 25 and 30 a month . |
| 21 | They should be between 23 and 30 cm ( 9–12 in ) long , with the lower leaves removed , and then buried for up to between half and two-thirds their length in a sheltered bed or border , spaced about 15 cm ( 6in ) apart . |
| 22 | I thought to myself , ’ What 's he up to at this time of night ? ’ |
| 23 | It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’ |
| 24 | Between mouthfuls of food I enquire from the Commando sitting beside me on the grass ‘ What is he up to with that pig ? ’ |
| 25 | In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land . |
| 26 | At the higher levels , humans in the prime of life can hear noises up to about 20,000 cycles per second . |
| 27 | The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards . |
| 28 | Elsewhere they form isolated patch reefs up to about 1.5 km in diameter and about 30–100 m in thickness ( Füchtbauer 1972 and 1980 ; Peryt 1976 ) . |
| 29 | the stress , referred to the original cross-section is therefore This relation fits quite well the behaviour of rubbers for values of — up to about 1.5 ( 50 per cent strain ) but is not accurate thereafter . |
| 30 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |