Example sentences of "[adj] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 2 | The necessary trade-off between resolution and penetration limits the maximum depth presently attainable to a few millimetres . |
| 3 | 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) . |
| 4 | This document won praise from the liberal majority at the Council , and was readily accepted , subject to a few amendments . |
| 5 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ People here live long , ninety to a hundred years . |
| 8 | As the spectrum includes four b-type bands we assign these to a 1 vibrations and the a-type bands to b 2 vibrations ( Fig. 5.30 ) . |
| 9 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 10 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 11 | Aunt Emily has no objection at all to a few hens ! |
| 12 | The legal procedures may be improved , but they are bound to remain vulnerable to an erroneous police case . |
| 13 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |
| 14 | Sources will be gas at temperatures of ten thousand to a million degrees ; they should include streamers of gas in double star systems , remains of old supernovae , and hot white dwarf stars . |
| 15 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 16 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 17 | " I too shall be attending the ceremonies prior to a few days ' relaxation at the hill station of Dalat . " |
| 18 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
| 19 | The head of the decyphering branch of the foreign ministry there claimed in 1823 that he had personally broken eighty-five foreign codes , at a time when eighty to a hundred letters were being opened on each working day . |
| 20 | And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah . |
| 21 | Commuters can expect delays on the Northern Lane service tonight due to a technical problems at Sandhills and an incident at Moorfields . |
| 22 | Jameie Geekie , Buckley 's key bowler , and Colin Evans , their young batting hope are both ruled out due to A level studies and that will improve the chances for Chris Lloyd 's Wrexham side , who are in need of a success after falling 19 points behind . |
| 23 | Therefore , the futures price will respond first to information of a general nature , while information specific to a few companies will have little impact on the index or the futures price . |
| 24 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 25 | An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch . |
| 26 | Compared with the number of dogs who are registered , entries to shows are quite small : fifty to a hundred entries compared with 3,000 registrations for 1986 . |
| 27 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 28 | Once all the information has been incorporated , the sequence of phases will have been assigned dates at various points , although these will be of differing quality : some may be accurate to a few years , others only to the nearest couple of centuries . |
| 29 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 30 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |