Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 2 | In addition to the substantial delivery of Government programmes , the Agency has also been able to deploy earned surpluses on a range of innovative projects from training to business development financing . |
| 3 | The situation is worst in St Petersburg , where 845 cases ( 17 cases/100,000 inhabitants ) were reported in 1992 , and 498 cases from January to April , 1993 ( Dr Yuri Rikushin , Pasteur Institute of St Petersburg , personal communication ) . |
| 4 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 5 | WHO turns its attention to the matter in its latest Technical Report , which notes the experience of representative nations from Algeria to Zimbabwe . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 7 | In the Heinkel , despite the enormous noise , Hess and Edward exchanged a few shouted words from time to time , their faces pressed close together . |
| 8 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 9 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 10 | Each comedian 's show will be recorded by the studio 's outside broadcast unit at a variety of social clubs from Redcar to Newcastle and each show in the twelve week series will feature snippets from each of the acts . |
| 11 | If this flow could be transported to North Wales , it would stand half as high as Snowdon ; if it could be transported to Surrey , it would be half as high again as the highest hill , and , such is the attraction of all high objects from mountains to the cost of living , it would be an important landmark , regularly thronged in summer with picnickers and ramblers , and would feature on scores of postcards . |
| 12 | The middlemen may sometimes be excluded from a channel , as in most industrial marketing , where direct channels from manufacturer to customer are employed . |
| 13 | Among its more celebrated paintings are Clouet 's ‘ Diana at her bath ’ , Caravaggio 's ‘ Flagellation of Christ ’ and Velazquez 's ‘ Democritus ’ in addition to outstanding French pictures from Poussin to Jouvenet . |
| 14 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 15 | The Bishop and his party of senior clergy , suffragan , archdeacon , dean precentor and residentiary canons moved on oiled heels from group to group , pair to pair , solitary to isolate . |
| 16 | There are the great islands of savannah and veld in East and South Africa , the little islands of mountain forests from Cameroon to Kilimanjaro , island-like lakes from Malawi to Turkana , islands of rain forest from Liberia to Uganda , real islands off the coast from Sao Tome to the Seychelles and man-made islands of conservation , from the Kruger to the Serengeti . |
| 17 | Light lambs from 106.3p to 121.9p ( average 112.6 ) , standard lambs 103.9 to 119.4 ( 113.1 ) , medium lambs from 106.2 to 115.5 ( 112.5 ) , heavy lambs from 100p to 107.8 ( 107 ) , overweights from average 100p , overall average lambs 112.97 . |
| 18 | Store sheep , 188 forward ewe and lamb couples Welsh single couples £24 to £41.50 , Welsh double couples £41 to £47.50 , cross bred singles up to £51 , Welsh yearling couples £46 to £60 , cull ewes cross bred ewes £18.50 to £29.80 , Welsh ewes £12.80 to £20.50 , rams from £17 to £25.50 , prime stock entry of 578 lambs with additional buyer in attendance , heavier lambs showing the best trade with insufficient numbers forward to meet demand , the lighter lambs met a firm trade resulting in a sale average of 108.1p , light lambs from 103.2p to 112.8p ( 107.54p ) , standard from 104.5p to 116.3p ( 107.3p ) , medium lambs from 113.6p to 115.7p ( 114.1p ) . |
| 19 | The second , lit by a single row of fluorescent lights , was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end . |
| 20 | Aimed at new businesses , the centre provides private car parking and a range of office units available at weekly rents from £30 to £65 . |
| 21 | The Guardian published the letters in weekly instalments from May to November 1941 . |
| 22 | LNER Flying Scotsman became an old age pensioner in style with a series of runs over its old haunts from Peterborough to York . |
| 23 | He surfaces in different places from time to time : there he is at St Mary 's church in Finchley , North London , witnessing the marriage of sister Bessie and Alf Davidge in 1907 , then appearing as if from nowhere to perform the same function for Gertie and Frederick Foxwell in Norwich in 1911 . |
| 24 | In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% . |
| 25 | ‘ Medieval manuscripts from Monastery to workshop ’ by Elspeth Yeo ; |
| 26 | Yesterday morning the police , conspicuous but inactive in past weeks , blocked East German latecomers from access to the embassy garden . |
| 27 | By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed . |
| 29 | This momentous shift took 300 years from church to factory , say , 1360 to 1660 . |
| 30 | Meagre contributions from Britain to Third World science bring forth expressions of sympathy from French officials for the Overseas Development Agency . |