Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 2 | A JILTED woman who rang her ex-boyfriend up to 36 times a day has been cleared of phone pest charges because she was in love . |
| 3 | It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system . |
| 4 | * Radioactivity up to 30,000 times above normal levels has been found in Bogdanovka , a health resort in central Russia . |
| 5 | The 1952 A " Levels resulted in five State Scholarships , two Stockport Major Scholarships , two Stockport Major Exhibitions , and three Cheshire Major University Scholarships — a record up to that time . |
| 6 | It had continually opposed socio-political change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time . |
| 7 | The steel blades are protected by a Mylar coating for wear resistance , giving protection up to 10 times longer than the blade 's normal life . |
| 8 | Newton 's account of his discovery of the true nature of light and colour has , however , as Professor Hall comments in new biography , ‘ misled posterity down to recent times ’ . |
| 9 | On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists . |
| 10 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 11 | Gould 's collection up to this time consisted , as the Hobart Town Courier related on 24 May , of ‘ about 800 specimens of birds , 70 of quadrupeds ( several of which are new ) , more than 100 specimens preserved whole in spirits , and the nest[s] and eggs of above 70 species of birds , together with skeletons of all the principal forms . |
| 12 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 13 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
| 14 | It was the highest number at any hearing up to that time . |
| 15 | The retina contains only nine light detectors , but by scanning the image up to ten times each second it is able to build up some kind of picture . |
| 16 | If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break . |
| 17 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 18 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 19 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 20 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 21 | A CRANK caller phoned her next-door neighbour up to 10 times a day — and never said a word . |
| 22 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 23 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 24 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |