Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , gross profit was down only £2m to £94m . |
| 2 | Owners ' shares slumped 9p to 138p , some 11p short of the 15-for-34 bid terms with Airtours , down just 1p to 338p , suggesting dealers were preparing for the failure of the offer . |
| 3 | However , Save & Prosper , with about £175m held for 37,000 Tessa customers , says that only about 10% to 15% came from existing customers — about 85% is new to the group . |
| 4 | Yet the amounts of money involved are small — the 66 per cent APR represents a charge for credit of only about 10p to 20p a week , on the amount commonly borrowed . |
| 5 | Taxable profits fell from £7.81m to £1.17m in the year to 30 June on group sales down about £20m to £91m . |
| 6 | However Candle believes its current incarnation — Data Facility/System-Managed Storage — does not go far enough : gathering statistics from the Gartner Group , International Data Corp and Xephon Plc , Candle suggests that mainframe disk requirements are growing at 28% per year , while at the same time only around 50% to 75% of the space is actually used . |
| 7 | Both slate quarries are open daily April to October , 100.00 a.m. –5.30 p.m . |
| 8 | On the 1st May an odd selection of individuals , myself included , set out to travel not only South to Totnes Castle , but also back in time about 530 years . |
| 9 | It is also subject to all kinds of criticism ; not just listeners to Radio Four , but the employers of graduates speak disapprovingly of the way the English language is spoken . |
| 10 | And finally tonight congratulations to Hereford United on reaching the fourth round of the FA Cup where they 'll face the might of Brian Clough and his Nottingham Forest side . |
| 11 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 12 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 13 | Profits surge : Share dealing and information group ShareLink , which is planning a £30m stock market flotation next month , has announced a profits rise of just over £1m to £3.5m in the 12 months to March 31 . |
| 14 | Show how the rate of interest could still rise to r 2 and investment still only fall to I 2 if this curve were to shift . |
| 15 | They were still only man to man , and there was still quietness as soon as they were quiet . |
| 16 | She wore impossibly high heels , yet she was still only eye to eye with Virginia in her bare feet . |
| 17 | As it is , going to Lourdes out of season , in the late autumn or winter , brings one even more starkly face to face with what the Catholic Belloc calls this supernatural place's ' detestable earthly adjuncts ' . |
| 18 | Well , those traffic lights on the Stratfield Break 's definitely giving us problems again this evening , of course , there 's road works going on there , traffic is still virtually bumper to bumper up there , very , very slow indeed . |
| 19 | Moreover , for purchases and bills in general , cards tend to work out cheaper than the cash alternative , as the card issuers tot up all the day 's transactions and exchange the total at a favourable exchange rate , usually around 2% to 3% better than the one available to the public . |
| 20 | Again these industries — shipbuilding , railway equipment , iron and steel , pharmaceuticals — are usually principally suppliers to government agencies or are state owned . |
| 21 | While Price Waterhouse 's UK fee income for the year to 30 June 1992 was also unimpressive ( up just 2% to £395m ) , turnover in the rest of Europe grew 14% to £442m . |
| 22 | Other supermarket groups were marginally firmer , with Sainsbury a penny better at 468p and Tesco also up 1p to 214p . |
| 23 | Conglomerate BET rose 4p to 260p as Normura forecast profits up nearly £50m to £320m and said the shares were oversold . |
| 24 | ‘ Renewal retention of the market is probably about 50% to 55% ; so they are keeping a policyholder about two years . |
| 25 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
| 26 | Clearly therefore equator to pole heat transfer is occurring at greater depths in the atmosphere than those for which wind patterns have been established . |
| 27 | It was dark as they sailed back up river to Lees ' wharf . |
| 28 | In addition to a guaranteed job , employers usually assist with relocation costs ( typically about $3,000 to $5,000 ) . |
| 29 | Making no attempt to disguise his anger at the Ulster decision John Hunter added : ‘ The fact that it was a blanket no , and that it was n't even person to person , made it all the more galling . ’ |
| 30 | It seems that in the course of 1960s church attendance in the province dropped from well over 80% to 25% , while the Quebec birth-rate has become one of the lowest in Canada . |