Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 2 | The situation is worst in St Petersburg , where 845 cases ( 17 cases/100,000 inhabitants ) were reported in 1992 , and 498 cases from January to April , 1993 ( Dr Yuri Rikushin , Pasteur Institute of St Petersburg , personal communication ) . |
| 3 | 7.6 Research on violence to staff in Social Work Departments shows that those who have been attacked can mistakenly feel that they have failed professionally and so may not report an incident in which they have been involved . |
| 4 | Although still two years before the Club was constituted , the land had clearly been earmarked for a golf course , and in 1906 ‘ The Syndicate ’ , as the company was known locally , agreed to sell this same 70 acres of land to a nucleus of people who were to form the kernel of the Club 's future bondholders , but who were then merely interested persons . |
| 5 | Durham revival ended with an 18–12 defeat at home to which left them third from the bottom of Division Four North . |
| 6 | In addition , there has been a reduction in the lead content of leaded petrol ( reduced from 1.0 gram per gallon to 0.5 g/gal in 1985 and then to 0.1 g/gal in 1986 ) . |
| 7 | 8.10.4 Attractions of delay to party ultimately liable |
| 8 | The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders . |
| 9 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 10 | The floods , combined with heavy snow , produced 300 calls for help to the police . |
| 11 | Pensions ranged from 30 p.c. in Luxembourg to 18 p.c. in Portugal . |
| 12 | The North 's chances of qualifying perished with their 2-1 defeat at home to Hungary in June . |
| 13 | Table 4.1 shows where the dementia sufferers were living six months and 12 months after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 14 | From a take of about 100 usable pictures , his agency — Magnum Photos with offices in Paris , New York , London and Hamburg — selected about 30 subjects for distribution to the magazine press world-wide . |
| 15 | Descharreaux expects first half 1993 turnover in France to be ‘ terrible , due to the constricted investment climate ’ , adding , ‘ Do n't forget there have been eight consecutive quarters of decline in investment in France ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We have waited 22 months for justice to be done and are appalled at the verdict , ’ it read . |
| 17 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 18 | Suppose a seller with just 12 bottles of port in stock agrees to sell 12 bottles of port to a particular buyer . |
| 19 | The hardy pair transferred 30 lb of tench to 6 lb , 12 pike to 8 lb and three double-figure carp last Wednesday night in temperatures to minus eight degrees Centigrade . |
| 20 | In Angola a programme co-ordinated by the UN to deliver 110,000 tonnes of food to 1,900,000 people affected by war and drought in nine central , southern and eastern provinces was barely under way due to poor donor response — by mid-December it was reported that only Switzerland and the Netherlands had made donations . |
| 21 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 22 | MORE than 30 years of service to the Order of St John medical service will be rewarded for one of the Order 's most senior doctors in County Durham . |
| 23 | In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% . |
| 24 | 2 Prohibition of entry to anyone working for the companies involved in the competition , including the sponsors , publishing house and competition handlers , advertising or public relations consultants . |
| 25 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 26 | By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so . |
| 27 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 28 | Two players were sent off as BRIDGEND fought out a 12-12 draw at home to PONTYPRIDD . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed . |
| 30 | This momentous shift took 300 years from church to factory , say , 1360 to 1660 . |