Example sentences of "[num] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular approval was given in a referendum on Jan. 12 to a new Constitution establishing multiparty politics [ for July national conference on constitution see p. 38324 ] . |
| 2 | Whatever justifications were invoked , sentiments of this sort show a new violence in antisemitic feeling quite different from the traditional popular dislike of Jews exploited , for example , by a Russian government looking for scapegoats which led in 1881 to a terrible series of anti-Jewish riots , followed by legislation creating new ghettoes . |
| 3 | After washing , 100 µl of substrate ( tetramethylbenzidine in DMSO ( 10 mg/ml ) dilutes 1 in 100 in 0.15 M citrate buffer and containing H 2 O 2 to a final concentration of 1.3 M/l ) were added and incubated for a further 15 minutes . |
| 4 | Thromboxane synthetase also catalyses the conversion of prostaglandin H 2 to a C-17 hydroxy acid known as 12-hydroxy-5.8.10-hepta-decatrienoic acid and malondialdehyde ( Diczfalusy & Hammarstrom , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Final legislative approval was given in the USA on March 22 to a further US$200,000,000 of aid to Turkey ( additional to the grant announced in February — see p. 38022 ) . |
| 6 | As a result , the amount of local authority housing built has fallen from more than 65,300 homes in 1979 to a mere 8,600 in 1990 . |
| 7 | It was clear from his success that he understood his adopted country extremely well , a fact underlined by his marriage in June 1979 to a wealthy New York Jewess , Susan Adler . |
| 8 | The decimetre-scale interbedding between LDO and nannofossil ooze represents timescales from hundreds to a few thousand years . |
| 9 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 10 | Attempts by the Sharif government to reduce inter-provincial rivalry and tensions between states and central government led in April 1991 to a fresh award for the division of financial resources . |
| 11 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 12 | Government officials have agreed to recommend an accelerated phase-out of the main ozone-destroying chemicals by the end of 1995 to a ministerial meeting in Copenhagen in November of the 82 members of the Montreal Protocol . |
| 13 | The collection covers all phases of Picasso 's career , from a drawing executed when he was nineteen to a reclining nude completed just months before he died in 1972 , with particularly interesting sculptures , including the gesso head of Dora Maar ( 1940 ) and ‘ Woman with pram ’ ( 1950 ) . |
| 14 | The Yugoslav dinar was devalued by approximately 80 per cent on Jan. 26 to a new initial rate against the deutschmark of DM1.00=65 dinars . |
| 15 | He was apprenticed in 1718 to a Danish sculptor-stuccoist , J. C. Sturmberg , and assisted his master at Fredensborg Castle and with a monument in Roskilde Cathedral . |
| 16 | Boro fought back after trailing 2-0 to a 39th minute goal from Oceano and a Kodro free-kick after 55 minutes . |
| 17 | Mayhew describes a spectrum of these , some quite appalling , with 6 or 7 to a single verminous bed , a few others almost home-like . |
| 18 | Although , with the elimination of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and with the increasing prominence given by Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos in 1932 to a popular front approach , the ferocity of sectarian politics abated somewhat between 1931 and 1933 , nevertheless the period from 1927 to 1933 , during which Nizan was initiated into communist party politics , was characterised above all by what is perhaps most accurately described as " sectarian simplicity " . |
| 19 | Fertility declined steadily from the 1870s to a new low in the 1930s . |
| 20 | Wycliffe took the three to a small table by the window . |
| 21 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 22 | Set plants 18in ( 45cm ) apart in the greenhouse border , singly in 9in ( 23cm ) pots , or three to a standard-sized growing bag . |
| 23 | ‘ People here live long , ninety to a hundred years . |
| 24 | In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 25 | Ninety to a hundred . |
| 26 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 27 | This pragmatic policy has seen value added on manufactured goods jump from S$142m in 1960 to a massive S$23.131bn in 1991 . |
| 28 | This means that movement from , say , a 3330 to a 3350 will require the definition of new control area sizes unless the number of control areas on a cylinder is already 2n on the 3330 . |
| 29 | Nearest rivals Internazionale lost 3-1 to a sparkling Lazio — without the injured Paul Gascoigne , while Juventus were beaten 2-1 at Foggia . |
| 30 | ALBA Yacht Services , based at Oban on the west coast of Scotland , offer a wide range of boats from Moody 31s to a Westerly Sealord with which to cruise the Western Isles . |