Example sentences of "[adv] to [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jovian atmosphere has been observed down to about the 1 bar altitude , and throughout this region the predominant motion is east-west . |
| 2 | What we should expect though is that it comes back down to around the three point five mark for the year . |
| 3 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 4 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 5 | So can we try that just to from a seated position not from from up the front . |
| 6 | Ecgfrith had sent a raiding party to Meath in 684 despite the exhortation not to of the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , who was residing among the Irish ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 7 | Here on this east side are the exaggerated sweeping gables , the cottagey front door with its hinges forged with heart-shaped ends ( a trade mark of Mr Voysey ) , the elaborate gutters , the pebble-dash over the two-feet-thick stone walls , and the cosy , comforting scale of the whole , so nice to come home to on a wet and windy evening . |
| 8 | You 've already built your holdings up to over a hundred houses , plus some useful parcels of land . |
| 9 | The car , already doing eight-five , roared up to over a hundred . |
| 10 | In a year , it 'll add up to over a hundred thousand pounds — if that happens the social services department says it 's budget will be so stretched it may be forced to make cuts in other areas . |
| 11 | It mounts up to over a thousand quid . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 13 | I can get back up to about a thirty eight now . |
| 14 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there . |
| 17 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 18 | Whatever you 're up to during the snowy season , a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear . |
| 19 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 20 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
| 21 | Which shows how little she knows about what I get up to in the small hours . |
| 22 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 23 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 24 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 25 | How fast can you get up to in the green machine ? |
| 26 | I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century . |
| 27 | Three living dolphin groups have a record that extends back to about the late Miocene period some 11 million years ago . |
| 28 | This appeal turns on the meaning in that subsection of the word ‘ appropriates ’ and will involve the consideration , among other things , of conflicting statements in this House , which I shall come back to at a later stage . |
| 29 | Since , in relation to shares ( as opposed to debentures ) there were no other practical advantages in conversion , this now rarely takes place though many major public companies which date back to before the 1948 Act still have stock . |
| 30 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |