Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 2 | Wales took victory in the men 's match by 72-65 , but Scotland ran out overall winners by 148-115 thanks to a comfortable women 's victory . |
| 3 | Advanced course units would then be taken , with a combination of twelve of them in one subject area leading to an honours degree , twelve in two subjects to a joint honours , and various other ‘ less demanding combinations ’ to ordinary degrees : |
| 4 | These have short periods , from a few days to a few weeks . |
| 5 | This process can take anything from a few weeks to a few months . |
| 6 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 7 | The department was changed from Social Studies to a full Humanities department teaching ‘ O ’ Level and CSE in History , Geography and Social Studies . |
| 8 | They must be able to cope with aridity , high daily and seasonal temperature ranges , seasonal swings in photoperiod from long days to long nights , and a growing season ranging in length from three to four months on the polar fringes to a few days or even hours in higher latitudes . |
| 9 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 10 | Mr Heath 's U-turn in 1972 , shifting from free-market policies to a statutory prices and incomes policy and state intervention in industry , is a negative example for her . |
| 11 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 12 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 13 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 14 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 15 | An interview can last anything from fifteen minutes to a few hours , though normally one hour is considered long , so it is essential to maintain the informant 's interest and attention for the duration . |
| 16 | Your answers to a few questions — in exchange for my silence . ’ |
| 17 | He wanted a few answers to a few riddles . |
| 18 | This sympathetic , welfare-orientated role was illustrated well when the fieldworker accompanied two neighbourhood men to a local children 's home . |
| 19 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 20 | Soviet and United States arms control negotiators resumed talks in Washington on Jan. 21 aimed at clearing obstacles to a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on cutting long-range nuclear arsenals by 30 per cent . |
| 21 | Every centimetres to a hundred kilometres . |
| 22 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 23 | We draw attention in the appropriate chapters to a few differences between our analysis and recommendations and those of the Kingman Committee . |
| 24 | Thus , objections to a full-blown systems theory such as Waltz 's come both from those who think of the state as a rational closed unit and from those who think that its internal organization matters . |
| 25 | Hence , Herring et al. ( 1988 ) described the design of SQL extensions to a new object-oriented GIS ; Abel ( 1988 ) has reported work on the creation of SQL-based spatial extensions to a relational database in the ‘ Spatial Information in a Relational Open-architecture database management system ’ ( SIRO-DBMS ) project ; and Ingram and Phillips ( 1988 ) have designed spatial extensions to a hybrid GIS data model . |
| 26 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |