Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 2 | Novas got their shooting game going and had closed the gap to 48–47 before a succession of shots slipped wide of the basket to end their chances of a comeback . |
| 3 | Overall , the number of complaints and inquiries fell by nearly 10 p.c. to 1,206 but the number of complaints was ‘ slightly above the 1990 level ’ . |
| 4 | Three bullet-ridden bodies were found in Karachi yesterday , bringing the death toll to seven since the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in Pakistan began on Wednesday . |
| 5 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 6 | Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half teaspoons . |
| 7 | Goal for sugar Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half spoonsful . |
| 8 | They were largely concerned with population and household predictions over the period to 1981 and the possibilities that existed for redistribution . |
| 9 | In all these cases , the bone accumulations resulting from burial , pitfalls , burrow deaths and hibernation/aestivation deaths are distinguished by their limitation to one or a few species but with all parts of the skeleton represented unbroken and well preserved . |
| 10 | Secondly the decision is a nineteen ninety one budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who raised the level of the Value Added Tax to seventeen and a half per cent from fifteen per cent hit the income of the majority of County Federation and certainly the National Federation because Customs and Excise when VAT was introduced ruled that the annual subscriptions was made VATable . |
| 11 | Nor is it very daring in the monolithic two-party system of the USA , where the narrow choice is between two rich , conservative ( in a wide sense ) white men , to offer allegiance to one or the other . |
| 12 | It must be borne in mind , however , that too much reward can reduce the drive-stimulus to zero after a certain point has been reached . |
| 13 | Labour , previously with only one MP , increased its share to four and the Tories lost five seats . |
| 14 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 15 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 16 | The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement . |
| 17 | Within four minutes Simmons had taken his tally to five and an own goal by Smott had given Alborne an insurmountable 8–0 lead . |
| 18 | A terrific finish to four and a half miles of the world 's greatest steeplechase . |
| 19 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 20 | Estimates range from several thousands to tens of thousands of thyroid cancers arising from the exposure to iodine-131 and a similar number of cancers elsewhere in the body from caesium-137 . |
| 21 | The role of providers , ie directly managed units , self-governing hospitals and private suppliers , is stated to be the delivery of ‘ contracted services within quality and quantity specification to one or a number of clients in return for agreed levels of income ’ ( DoH , 1989f ) . |
| 22 | I have heard there 's good sport to be had in Buttermere and Grasmere and I intend to make my way to one or the other for a few days . |
| 23 | If one is between York and Leeds , one has a a more distinct choice as to go to one or the other . |
| 24 | Conservatives dropped to 261 , Labour rose to 287 and the Liberals came home with a mere 59 . |
| 25 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |