Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.

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1 The first 500 readers to write to The Sugar Bureau will get a free copy of Easy Cooking On A Budget .
2 The Ministers had as many as 140 appointments to make to the Area Boards and Central Authority ( 43 of them full-time ) .
3 Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway .
4 So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board .
5 The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain .
6 It takes only 10 minutes to get to the shops in the wheelchair .
7 It took the Belgians six hours to rush to the defence of the Red Cross compound and by that time the fighting was over .
8 It took around six months to get to the quality audit stage and we were then able to invite in the assessor . ’
9 These lines pass through the main Polytechnic data switch , a Micom 2000 , which permits approximately 100 end-users to connect to the 2755 ( up to 48 simultaneously ) .
10 With just six weeks to go to the British Olympic trials , officials wanted all concerned to be aware of the potential repercussions following the recent National Olympic Committee meeting when it was decided that anyone guilty of a violation the IOC medical code would be ineligible for any British team .
11 With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec .
12 THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing .
13 Their mission complete the men divided into three parties to march to the coast , where it was planned that a submarine would pick them up .
14 The judge has power under s 65(1) of the 1984 Act to refer to the district judge or to a referee ( N 280 ) for inquiry and report : ( 1 ) any proceedings which require any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which can not , in the opinion of the judge , conveniently be made before him ; ( 2 ) any proceedings where the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account ; ( 3 ) with the consent of the parties , any other proceedings ; ( 4 ) subject to any right to have particular cases tried with a jury , any question arising in any proceedings .
15 It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough .
16 Selina had three paperbacks to add to the shelves , A to Z , Common Legal Problems and The Guide to Married Loving .
17 Cowan claimed three wickets to add to the two he took on Tuesday , while fellow pace man Andy Bee had three for 24 .
18 But this aroused influential opposition notably from the Emperor , Ferdinand I , and the Bavarian Duke , Albrecht V. The Pope 's motu proprio of 2 August 1564 , which nominated eight cardinals to see to the carrying out of the Tridentine reforms generally , says nothing at all about music .
19 This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting .
20 The organisers , backed by Derry City Council , expect over 20,000 people to flock to the Northern Ireland International Air Show at Eglinton Airport .
21 The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration .
22 The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ?
23 And I had to walk about fifty yards to get to the van because it was it was in an area that had been partly pedestrianized .
24 The Federal Emergency Relief Administration ( FERA ) , headed by Harry Hopkins , had a budget of half a billion dollars to distribute to the states .
25 Five pitches to go to the break at the end of the difficulties , four hours of daylight left .
26 They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts .
27 For existing 1–2-3 users , version 2.0 is to be released by the end of the year , and will include Chronicle , a networking technique which allow more than one user to contribute to the formation of a spreadsheet via Lotus Notes or cc:mail .
28 With less than nine months to go to the West German election on December 2nd , the East German result also strengthens Mr Kohl 's hold over his centre-right coalition in Bonn .
29 As a younger person I , I would expect that I 've probably got another fifteen years to go to the menopause , but I 'm looking forward to it as a relief from pre-menstrual syndrome !
30 there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend
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