Example sentences of "[num] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 2000 the arable land in use per head will have fallen to 0.25 hectares from 0.37 hectares in 1975 ; in Africa it will almost have halved from 0.64 to 0.39 hectares . |
| 2 | It moved from Greenwich in 1933 to new premises built on an estate provided by ship owner Gifford Sherman Reade in gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in safeguarding shipping during the First World War . |
| 3 | Weather analysts and radiation monitors described the cloud as about 60 miles long and 9,900 to 16,500 feet above the ground . |
| 4 | Numbers appear to drop rapidly in November and early December to the winter level in these Harbours of some 700 to 1,500 birds . |
| 5 | He said that it had not yet been decided how to go about making the cuts in all areas , notably in France , and it is not clear whether the figure of 3,000 includes the 800 to 900 positions that Bull said last week that it intended to eliminate in France . |
| 6 | Handling between 800 to 900 calls a day involves a lot of patience , and Clare says she always remembers to smile which helps . |
| 7 | Ormsby-Gore is credited with the suggestion that the American naval quarantine line around Cuba should be reduced from 800 to 500 miles to give approaching Soviet ships more time in which to react . |
| 8 | There are between 800 to 1,000 crossbreds at any one time in his intensive beef unit . |
| 9 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 10 | According to PC Week , the Alpha desktop workstation will include three Turbochannel expansion slots , 16Mb to 128Mb of memory , integrated Ethernet , ISDN and a SCSI controller and is expected to begin at about $18,000 ; the Alpha data centre system , with one to six processors to generate performance ranging from 175 to 900 SPECmarks , offers input-output at 100Mbytes to 400Mbytes per second through a multichannel Futurebus+ and as much as 14Gb of memory , priced at some $200,000 and up . |
| 11 | Although Jacques Chirac 's conservative Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and Valery Giscard d'Estaing 's centre -right Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) are expected to capture from 390 to 450 seats in the 577-member National Assembly with something around 40 per cent of the vote , the turn-out figure will give an important indication of voter dissatisfaction with the political establishment . |
| 12 | It is possible that there may have been a recovery of population around 1430 , as the previous decade was relatively free of plague , but from 1433 to 1454 epidemics again increased in frequency ( see Framework ) , some being general throughout the country and others being more localised , particularly in London . |
| 13 | Fitt brought down the Labour Government because Labour had increased Northern Ireland 's representation at Westminster from 12 to 17 seats . |
| 14 | It 's for young people aged 12 to 17 years , and is n't necessarily for Pinewood Village residents — anyone interested from the whole locality would be welcome . |
| 15 | This value is similar to previously reported values for duodenal contractile frequency of 12 to 13 contractions and supports the proposal that these images are phase III like activity patterns . |
| 16 | Indeed Mr Jones had , in the past , accepted a transfer from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery ( a couple of miles from his home ) to Hem Heath Colliery ( around 12 to 13 miles from his home ) . |
| 17 | Travelling by Rail — 2 to 4 years £41 , 4 to 11 years £20 , 12 to 13 years £10 . |
| 18 | The gestation period of a horse is about 11 months , that of a donkey 12 to 13 months , and that of the hybrid somewhere between 11 and 13 months . |
| 19 | The type I recommend for the average player is one that has 12 to 13 degrees of loft , deepish in the face , and toed-in slightly . |
| 20 | On Dec. 24 , 1990 , the Cabinet approved a restructuring of the army over five years which would reduce military service progressively from 12 to eight months and personnel from 82,000 to 66,000 ; forces in Germany would be reduced from the current 22,000 to 3,500 by the end of 1995 . |
| 21 | At the 1991 annual military parade on July 14 Mitterrand proposed a reduction of compulsory national service from 12 to 10 months as from 1992 . |
| 22 | The National Assembly on Oct. 3 approved by 316 votes to two , with 255 abstentions , a law reducing military service from 12 to 10 months . |
| 23 | Across the yard in the oast house , hops fresh from this year 's harvest are placed in a kiln for 12 to 14 hours and heated by electric fans at temperatures starting at 90 degrees F and rising to 140° . |
| 24 | Gall bladder epithelial cells grew successfully and visible clusters of cells were present by day two , confluency being reached at 8 to 10 days in collagen coated plates and 12 to 14 days in uncoated plates . |
| 25 | In the coated plates ( type IV collagen ) confluency was reached at 8 to 10 days ( Fig 1C ) ; in the uncoated plates at 12 to 14 days . |
| 26 | Serum bismuth concentration was measured initially and after two and four weeks with samples taken 12 to 16 hours after enema administration . |
| 27 | High schools 12 to 16 years or 13 to 16 years |
| 28 | When tested at ages 12 to 16 years , these girls were found to have an average I Q of 54 . |
| 29 | The Halifax Building Society , conducted a survey of its ‘ Quest ’ club members with an age range of 12 to 16 years of age . |
| 30 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |