Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarried women contributed a third to that increase in births . |
| 2 | The broadcasting levy paid to the Government rose a third to £4.8m . |
| 3 | Sir Jeffrey , who has acted as unpaid and part-time special adviser to six trade and industry secretaries , yesterday added a seventh to his belt . |
| 4 | Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 . |
| 5 | WENTWORTH 's Sally Prosser retained her eight-stroke overnight lead when she added a 71 to her opening 64 in the second round of the JAL Malaysia Open at Rahman Putra in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 6 | SCOTLAND 's Gordon Manson added a 68 to his opening 65 to take a four-stroke lead after the second round of the Nigerian Open at the Ikoyi Golf Club in Lagos . |
| 7 | On a day when the pin positions and the weather conspired to have the second round asking still more difficult questions than the first , Knuth added a 77 to her opening 73 . |
| 8 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 9 | Ian Woosnam added a 69 to his opening 67 and Mark Mouland , taking inspiration from his partner after a miserable season , produced a 70 . |
| 10 | Now he leads by two from Berkshire 's Barry Lane , who added a 70 to his course-record-equalling 64 , Fijian Vijay Singh ( 68 ) and South African Gavin Levenson ( 66 ) . |
| 11 | Gilford , winner of last month 's Moroccan Open , added a 66 to his first-day 65 and his nearest challengers are the Argentine Jorge Berendt ( 71 ) and the New Zealander Frank Nobilo ( 68 ) . |
| 12 | Overnight leader Fred Couples , who hit a course record-equalling 64 in the first round , shot 73 and is one stroke behind Larry Mize , who added a 67 to his opening 69 to take the lead . |
| 13 | Maisie had managed , somehow , to make Beethoven 's tune sound like a tired police siren ; when it dropped a fourth to B natural she paused , fractionally , before playing the note ; it sounded , as a result , like a burp or a fart . |
| 14 | Urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen in carcinomas showed a six to seven fold increase in the stomach and a more than 13 fold higher concentration in oesophageal tissue compared with normal mucosa . |
| 15 | In September 1992 , polls in Norway indicated a 49 to 35 per cent majority against membership . |
| 16 | We observed a twofold to fivefold stimulation of proliferation of Schwann cells treated with recombinant materials over background activity present in mock-transfected host cells ( Table 2 ) . |
| 17 | On average the crews served a nine to twelve month operational tour , but as the emergency wore on it was not unusual to see operational aircrews flying on combat missions for two , or more , years . |
| 18 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 19 | He called all others who felt a stirring to be involved in subsequent sending out of church planting teams to come forward . |
| 20 | The importance of knowing the dose equivalence of β 2 agonists is highlighted by the recent experience in New Zealand , where the excess mortality associated with fenoterol has been attributed to marketing of a metered dose inhaler that contained a two to four times higher relative dose of fenoterol compared with salbutamol . |
| 21 | 95 per cent of boys preferred a democratic to an autocratic leader , and 70 per cent preferred a laissez-faire leader to an autocratic one . |
| 22 | Divisional Conferences held in January and February 1932 , though recording greater support for disaffiliation , nevertheless gave a two to one vote in favour of staying inside the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Both main landing gears separated when the aircraft struck a three to four foot high sand bank 850 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 24 | The NEJM , a general medical journal that publishes both clinical research and medically relevant basic research , also had a threefold to fourfold increase in the proportion of multiauthor or collaborative articles between 1985 and 1991 ( table ) . |
| 25 | He did n't quite because Ray had a 68 to Nick 's 69 , but our group again played well even though it was another tough day , with wind and rain all day . |
| 26 | Penny went in and had a twenty to one |
| 27 | as soon as she got there she had a twenty to one winner ! |
| 28 | She also had a three to four week history of a productive cough with greenish sputum . |
| 29 | Faldo , who has never won this championship , went into lunch one hole down against Frost who had a 66 to a 67 . |
| 30 | Me and Pam bet the same horse and did n't know , and we had a ten to one winner ! |