Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 2 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 3 | Clearly there are other choices for the parameters , but for all realistic values the critical concentrations will be small , and the length scale of the individual layers will be a small fraction of the chamber depth in the range of a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 4 | In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue . |
| 5 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 6 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 7 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 8 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 9 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 10 | ‘ Never , in my life , ’ he murmured distractedly , leaving her mouth for a few seconds to hungrily kiss her cheekbone , her temple , to lightly nip the lobe of her ear , ‘ have I met a woman so obstinate , so pigheaded … ’ |
| 11 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 12 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 13 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 14 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 15 | Pemell 's publications were all in the vernacular , but showed some knowledge of Latin , and were derived from classical and contemporary learned authors , with a few references to his own experience . |
| 16 | Three are British , and all the rest American ( including a few immigrants to the US ) . |
| 17 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 18 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 19 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 20 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 21 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 22 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 23 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 24 | The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested . |
| 25 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 26 | It can accommodate simulations of drainage-basins ranging in size from a few hectares to 40 000 square kilometres . |
| 27 | Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base . |
| 28 | When Society members inspected the guard 's compartment , they discovered that the original vacuum gauge was still in place and that , apart from a few alterations to the window arrangements , the coach is essentially as built . |
| 29 | The sea lagoon turned out to vary in depth from a few inches to a couple of feet . |
| 30 | It varies in height from a few inches to two feet depending on the habitat . |