Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
| 2 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 3 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 4 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 5 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 6 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 7 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 8 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 9 | Visibility was down to a few yards . |
| 10 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |
| 11 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
| 12 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 13 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 14 | I told my boyfriend who was horrorstruck and took myself off to a lesbian students ' conference . |
| 15 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 16 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
| 17 | The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application . |
| 18 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 19 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 20 | Up to a million Armenians , by late February , were reported to be demonstrating daily in the city 's Opera Square . |
| 21 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 22 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 23 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 24 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 25 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 26 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 27 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 28 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 29 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |
| 30 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |