Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [num] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 're adding a positive number , so if I say add plus three to a number , it 's the same as just adding them , okay ? |
| 2 | Women tend to look for three to four things , your shoes , your fingernails , ties and socks , okay so make sure you look the part . |
| 3 | The eggs begin to hatch after two to four days , depending on the species . |
| 4 | You know coming from seventy to hundred a sixty five in fact when had their sales meeting last Friday it was observed that the sales force in the er which were gathered which we do every two months in the in the major suite the training suite er conference suite at head office er that was the total number of sales execs we had in January the previous year . |
| 5 | Any prolonged interruption to this process is a threat to survival — brain cells become damaged after two to three minutes without oxygen . |
| 6 | Aim to exercise for 20 to 30 minutes , two or three times a week and make a habit of it . |
| 7 | Our share of the total votes cast increased from 58 to 59 per cent . |
| 8 | Bring the water to the boil , pour over the flowers and leave to infuse for 30 to 60 minutes . |
| 9 | For the USSR much will depend , ultimately , on world oil prices , on world gas prices and on just how much foreign currency the USSR needs if energy exports really do account for 60 to 80 per cent of hard currency earnings . |
| 10 | So I 've got till twenty to seven . |
| 11 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 12 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 13 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 14 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
| 15 | Since buying the company , its staff numbers have fallen from 25 to six . |
| 16 | The school is closing down and pupil numbers have fallen from 700 to 300 over ten years . |
| 17 | On the distributor roads however , such as the Altländerstrasse and the Konopkastrasse , mean speeds have fallen from 51 to 31 km/h . |
| 18 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 19 | Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Turn-outs for local elections in Hungary have dropped from 40 to 20 per cent , and in some recent votes down below 15 per cent . |
| 21 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 22 | Money market interest rates have risen from 8 to 9 per cent in the course of one month . |
| 23 | According to the report , monthly applications for SHP have risen from 1,400 to 7,700 in four years . |
| 24 | Although average prices across the country are rising moderately from their levels of a year ago , in the South-east they have slid by 10 to 15 per cent in the past 12 months . |
| 25 | They have laid so many bets that the odds have tumbled from 2000 to one pre season to 12 to one . |
| 26 | Since January the odds that there would be no monarchy at all have tumbled from 100–1 to 5–1 . |
| 27 | Traditionally , management commission rates have ranged from 15 to 25 per cent of the band 's gross income . |
| 28 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 29 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 30 | In the United States , economists calculate that those who work at home for outside contractors or involuntarily work part-time have doubled since 1980 to nearly 17 per cent of all workers . |