Example sentences of "[num] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sails vary in size from 2m 2 up to the monster 8m 2 sails , allowing windsurfers the option of choosing the right sail size for the conditions . |
| 2 | Further rectilinear structures associated with Flavian material were also located in 1985 closer to the town . |
| 3 | From within the arena of armchairs and sofa he had been mirroring her progress about the room , two steps forward to the drinks trolley where she placed her glass , four steps to her eight over to the window , three back on her way to the door again . |
| 4 | The lower foot is usually placed at about 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock to the slope . |
| 5 | Though he claimed to have restored the Republic after thirteen years of civil war that lasted from the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 , he was in fact sole ruler and emperor of Rome and its conquered territories . |
| 6 | Furthermore , he ordered the emancipation of all slaves in the possession of British subjects residing in Zanzibar ; it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 up to the time of his leaving Zanzibar . |
| 7 | If we take British world title winners by decade from 1892 onwards to the present , the picture that emerges not only refutes the hungry fighter theory , but suggests that better living standards produce more world champions than poverty does . |
| 8 | The defendants paid the reduced rent from 1941 down to the beginning of 1945 , by which time all the flats in the block were fully let , and continued to pay it thereafter . |
| 9 | They were of course no different from good maintained grammar schools and owed their survival after 10/65 only to the anomaly created in 1926 and perpetuated in 1944 . |
| 10 | Whilst this approach has opened MDC up to the laissez-faire criticism of market interference , it creates a policy flexibility within which there is potential to engage with local authority and community imperatives . |
| 11 | Good night ; ’ She kissed me on the cheek , and followed the three out to the street . |
| 12 | From 1976 through to the introduction of the community charge in 1990 , governments had tried to curb local spending by reducing central government support . |
| 13 | The mother was also alone in the ambulance with her daughter when she was transferred about 11 p.m. to the labour ward in another part of the hospital shortly before she signed the refusal form . |
| 14 | But in 1989 , 1990 and 1991 the Extended HGSC Index underperformed , as it did in 1992 up to the date when this issue went to press . |
| 15 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 16 | The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully . |
| 17 | General item two straight after number five back to the budget which allow us a couple of petitioners who have been so far . |
| 18 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 19 | Unless I have read the guillotine motion incorrectly , it seems that the time available to discuss clause 15 through to the end of the Bill amounts to about a day . |
| 20 | However , by the end of day 3 , the futures price has fallen to 1050 and the buyer has to pay 150 over to the seller . |
| 21 | A rise of 1 per cent in interest rates adds £400–500 million annually to the cost of mortgage tax relief . |
| 22 | Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's address to the Bundestag on Sept.8 , reviewing his 10 years in office , acknowledged that mistakes had been made in the unification process and warned that western Germany would need to transfer DM150,000 million annually to the east " for a long time to come " . |
| 23 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |
| 24 | From the beginning of the period of rapid employment reductions in BR in the early 1960s up to the present , manual employees ' earnings have scarcely reached average levels for industry as a whole . |
| 25 | Weiskopf played a regular four-ball with Jack Nicklaus , Tony Jacklin and Bert Yancey , and so I followed this four up to the tee . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll take you two back to the centre to rest and recover , ’ said Rachel , then , looking up at the superintendent who was hovering anxiously , she asked , ‘ Has the incident been recorded in the accident book ? ’ |
| 27 | think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of . |
| 28 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 29 | And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ? |
| 30 | This chapter examines the Conservative record throughout the 1980s up to the passing of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act . |