Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] each " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumours over the weekend were that the food manufacturers who supply more than £50m worth of goods to Gateway each week are concerned about extending further credit . |
| 2 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 3 | Secondly , it uses the minimum amount of film to cocoon each nappy . |
| 4 | The Christianization of the rest of Europe and Russia was steadily progressing , though the fragmentation of the Christian church into Catholic West and Orthodox East was of recent origin : one clause of the creed — that the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father ‘ and from the Son ’ ( filioque ) — had caused the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Byzantium to bombard each other with bulls and writs of excommunication . |
| 5 | He drove through the heavens , from east to west each day to his palace in Colchis , in a golden boat drawn by four winged white horses . |
| 6 | It grows from strength to strength each year and the quality of the programme gets even better . |
| 7 | Back to his best Billy Lancaster , who goes from strength to strength each season , beat the talented Mark Jones , last year 's runner-up , by 21–16 , while Bob Severs was at his best to beat Michael Ryan 21–7 . |
| 8 | It seems unlikely that anything much will come of this discontent — there will always be some students eager to defend an institution that in most universities contributes up to £100,000 to charity each year . |