Example sentences of "[n mass] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Completed on May 1 , 1927 it first flew on May 12 and proved to be an excellent design , setting a world class record for long-distance flight when it flew the 1,240km from Kharkov/Sevastopol to Moscow in fifteen hours thirty minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ We will also develop conversion methods for our clients , and the Pick and Pick look-alike market , providing them with an open alternative , ’ Salmon said , believing that with Apscore 's help , customers will be able to port code and data from Pick to Unix in a matter of days . |
| 3 | Extrapolation of data from rat to man is difficult , but it is tempting to speculate that the findings in the present study may have its parallel in man and explain some findings reported in patients with diseases accompanied by hypergastrinemia . |
| 4 | Either the computer converts the initial data from decimal to binary and the final results from binary to decimal , performing all internal calculations in binary , or a data-type and instruction set is provided to perform arithmetic operations directly in decimal . |
| 5 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 6 | The Ugandan government had suspended five of its pilots for apparently carrying weapons on board a Ugandan-registered aircraft from Bophuthatswana to Zagreb , where they had been impounded by the Yugoslav authorities . |
| 7 | The book says if you keep yawing the aircraft from side to side the wheel may release . |
| 8 | Profits before tax and asset disposals showed an increase of 26pc from £1.2m to £1.6m but the pre-tax figure dipped 34pc to £2.02m from £3.05m caused by a marked reduction in asset disposals . |
| 9 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 10 | Tickets for Friday cost £5 between 10am and 4pm ; £3 from £4 to 8pm . |
| 11 | Currently 60 mph from Buttington to Aberystwyth , this is to be increased to 75 mph . |
| 12 | At the same time allowance must be made for local preferences in the matter of terminology : annuities were not specified in Gloucestershire , nor were pensions in Worcestershire where , for example can be found payments of £5 from Kidderminster to John Rooke , serjeant at law of Bristol , £4 from Droitwich to another layman , and £1. 6s. 8d. from Cradley to the vicar of Halesowen . |
| 13 | Some of these locomotives took part in the railway ‘ race ’ from London to Aberdeen in 1895 , when there was keen competition between the west and east coast routes for Anglo-Scottish passenger traffic , and averaged well over 60 m.p.h. from Carlisle to Aberdeen on severe gradients . |
| 14 | Moreover , his nerve deserted him when Russia invaded East Prussia , and he transferred two army corps from France to the East . |
| 15 | Royal Insurance — which reduced its audit fees by 13% from £2.55m to £2.22m — also cut the cost by enhancing the role of its internal audit department and by cutting the number of external audit firms from two to one . |
| 16 | After watching the growth of this fish from ¼″ to 10″ , I 'll keep it until it leaves naturally . |
| 17 | At the same time allowance must be made for local preferences in the matter of terminology : annuities were not specified in Gloucestershire , nor were pensions in Worcestershire where , for example can be found payments of £5 from Kidderminster to John Rooke , serjeant at law of Bristol , £4 from Droitwich to another layman , and £1. 6s. 8d. from Cradley to the vicar of Halesowen . |
| 18 | Air France Rail ( 081–568 6981 ) £129 from Gatwick to Nantes includes return flights to Paris , and return rail ticket between Paris and Nantes . |
| 19 | Underlying improvement achieved in all major classes during 1991 continued into Q1 of 1992 which produced losses down by 30% from $92.8m to $65.2m . |
| 20 | 12 It is 1,280km from Freeport to Santo Domingo . |
| 21 | At Mr Ramirez 's request he also transmitted $60,000 from WedTech to a company controlled by the official after he left the government . |
| 22 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 23 | WEU Foreign Ministers , meeting in the margins of the summit , adopted a declaration which included commitments to ( i ) elaborate and implement decision and actions of the Union with defence implications ; ( ii ) invite EC countries not then WEU members ( i.e. Denmark and Greece — which were NATO members — and neutral Ireland ) to join ; and ( iii ) move the WEU headquarters from London to Brussels . |
| 24 | Further unhappiness and a similar rift were generated over opinion and strategy in defence , where de Gaulle was striking out on a path different from that of the other Western allies , a path that culminated in the withdrawal of France from the NATO military command structure in 1966 , necessitating the removal of NATO headquarters from Paris to Brussels . |
| 25 | Some 300 companies have moved their headquarters from Osaka to Tokyo each year because they want to plug into the capital 's networks . |
| 26 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 27 | Following Franco 's example , Hedilla had transferred his headquarters from Burgos to Salamanca in October , and was thus able to see Franco quite frequently . |
| 28 | Have frightful dream in which Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr Darcy , loses a leg , plays the piano in the nude and is pursued by flock of symbolic sheep from room to room of vast baroque mansion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In one of these attacks , the victim was a Soviet merchantman ; in another , it was a vessel carrying sheep from Australia to Kuwait , the only recorded casualties being 300 sheep . |