Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Microprocessor Report says we 're now down to six serious chips contending for the desktop : Intel Corp iAPX-86 , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , Mips Technologies Inc R series , Hewlett-Packard Co PA-RISC , IBM Corp PowerPC and Digital Equipment Corp Alpha , having discarded the Intel 860 , Motorola Inc 88000 and Intergraph Corp Clipper as unreal . |
| 2 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 3 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 4 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 5 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 6 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 7 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 8 | Its five commissioners are now down to three . |
| 9 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 10 | Health chiefs admit that the queue had built up to ‘ unacceptable levels ’ but claim they are now down to 10 weeks . |
| 11 | I 'm now down to the weight my doctor said I should be . |
| 12 | If you are almost down to your goal weight and inches you should follow the instructions in the Maintenance Programme detailed on page 164 . |
| 13 | If we then take the effect which the southern bypass appears to have had , on the A sixty one , a two and a half percent reduction , we are then down to something marginally under twenty five percent . |
| 14 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |