Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 2 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 3 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 4 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 5 | Marine and Quaternary Geology : This group is concerned with the study of fundamental physical , chemical and biological processes which enable Quaternary climatic and environmental changes and their causes to be inferred on timescales of a million years to less than one year . |
| 6 | We added 5 µmol/ml of a single phospholipids to human biles which contained an average of 21 µmol/ml of various native phospholipids . |
| 7 | Clearly there are other choices for the parameters , but for all realistic values the critical concentrations will be small , and the length scale of the individual layers will be a small fraction of the chamber depth in the range of a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 8 | In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue . |
| 9 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 10 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 11 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 12 | He sold one of Derain 's paintings for a thousand francs to a Norwegian dealer and was able to offer Modigliani a contract . |
| 13 | There is an increasing demand for A Level courses to be rooted in practical experience , and Compact provides many opportunities to meet this demand . |
| 14 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 15 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 16 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 17 | ‘ Never , in my life , ’ he murmured distractedly , leaving her mouth for a few seconds to hungrily kiss her cheekbone , her temple , to lightly nip the lobe of her ear , ‘ have I met a woman so obstinate , so pigheaded … ’ |
| 18 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 19 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 20 | They 're just the same with the police force , there could be er , er , an increase in police pay , or there could be any , a very large incident which would require planning , if these happen then it has always been the case , if there was n't the money available then a precept could be put upon us as a local authorities to er , cover that erm , directly . |
| 21 | ‘ Worth a thousand pounds to you . ’ |
| 22 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 23 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 24 | Pemell 's publications were all in the vernacular , but showed some knowledge of Latin , and were derived from classical and contemporary learned authors , with a few references to his own experience . |
| 25 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 26 | With a dozen spills to hand , I reached for the matches in my pouch . |
| 27 | Three are British , and all the rest American ( including a few immigrants to the US ) . |
| 28 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 29 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 30 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |