Example sentences of "[n mass] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightweight stores cleared readily from £30 to £34.50 each with several pens from £35 to a top of £37.80 paid to a regular Loughgall producer . |
| 2 | Theoretically , the company 's total valuation , based on estimated 1992 revenues of $90m , could range from a low of $270m to a high of $720m , but more probably lies around $500m give or take . |
| 3 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 4 | Procedures of both sorts can be found in any type or size of organisation , for filling in forms , processing goods , inputting data to a computer system etc , and those directed at the continual development and implementation of policy , or the preservation of the mode of business operation . |
| 5 | We convert the data to a quantity related to the power spectrum at the present epoch , the fractional variance in density per ln k ( refs 20 , 21 ) |
| 6 | PRINT# is intended for sending data to a file . |
| 7 | The second 3 examples are also programs which write data to a file and read it back , but this time the data is mixed . |
| 8 | With a pixel refresh rate of 320 million per second , SGI claims it can deliver the same amount of data to a screen in one second as appears in during a typical 30 second television advertisement . |
| 9 | Having been airborne for a while and learned that this aircraft demands a gentle touch on the engine controls , the trainee who demonstrates prudent use of reverse derives huge satisfaction from the soft-but-powerful deceleration , bringing the aircraft to a stop in 400 metres . |
| 10 | In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin . |
| 11 | NEIGHBOURS star Alan Dale was yesterday ordered to pay more than £1,500 to a bus driver he thumped . |
| 12 | Since me you 've had Hampshire , Old , Illy , Bairstow , Lamb and Hartley — and 10 bob to a tanner young Carrick will be smoked out within the fortnight , right ? |
| 13 | In fact , last month AT&T also announced that it will be contributing $100,000 to a retrospective of the work of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat , whose life and tragic death in 1988 are closely identified with the excesses of the art market boom . |
| 14 | Unleaded petrol and diesel go up by five pence to a gallon , but Leaded petrol is up by ten pence a gallon . |
| 15 | It means , for example , that the compensatory award would increase from a maximum of £10,000 to a maximum of £30,000 . |
| 16 | Power is given in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to award compensation of up to £1000 to a client who has been the victim of shoddy work . |
| 17 | For example , a warehouse selling car spares may give a discount of 20% to a garage buying spare parts . |
| 18 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 19 | His household accounts reveal an attachment to robust and expensive pleasures : £5 went to pay his card debts ; £2.13s. 4d. to a man who brought him a lion ; £30 to a young damsel who danced . |
| 20 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 21 | This affinity of a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers can be taken a stage further . |
| 22 | MIPS duly rolled out its Magnum and Millenium systems last week : in the UK , journalists from across Europe trundled in two-by-two as the company treated the press corps to a glimpse of the inside of Ake Larson 's London Ark building in Hammersmith , which is n't due to be opened until next month . |
| 23 | The young elephants threatened to flounder to a halt , and with them the flow of life-blood to Verdun . |
| 24 | If the draft is approved by ministers the general levy for cattle will rise from 190p to a maximum of 219p , calves from 12p to 14p , sheep from 34p to 39p and pigs 48p to 55p . |
| 25 | It would be folly to add any new fish to a tank containing a breeding pair of cichlids — even peaceful ones , like Severums . |
| 26 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 27 | Earnings per share edged from 17.9p to a record 18p , and a 3.64p final dividend is payable on June 5 to raise the total from 47/8p to 5¼p . |
| 28 | Price Waterhouse 's Toronto office has been forced to repay fees of Canadian $680,000 to a client , after a court found that the firm , in accepting the appointment , had ignored a conflict of interest . |
| 29 | The accused , assistant manager of an electrical goods shop , agreed to supply items costing over £16,000 to a person in exchange for two stolen building society cheques . |
| 30 | A recent study by Bradford De Long of Harvard University concluded that the presence of a Morgan partner on a company 's board added up to 30% to a share 's value . |