Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so no wonder the horse starts favourite with 12 wins to the bikers one … what about the runners can they ever beat the horse … |
| 2 | Darlington Brown Trout 's Baker Trout Cup attracted 53 contenders to the banks of the Tees last Sunday . |
| 3 | With Labour still holding 49 seats to the Tories 11 , the Liberal Democrats nine and the SNP 's three , many believe the prospect of five more years of Tory rule will simply intensify the demands for change . |
| 4 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
| 5 | Labour won a massive victory being returned with 393 seats to the Conservatives ' 213 and the Liberals ' 12 . |
| 6 | Describing his photograph , Mr Ashdown said : ‘ He is one in a row of 150 , crammed six rows to a cattle shed in the baking Bosnian heat . |
| 7 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 8 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 9 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 10 | In 1924 , with the slogan " Keep Cool with Coolidge " , he easily retained the presidency for the Republicans , carrying 35 states to the Democrats ' 12 ; 15 million Americans voted for him , while 8 million voted for the Democrat candidate and nearly 5 million for Robert La Follette , a Progressive " third party " candidate . |
| 11 | There was an urgency in the voice that made Defries and Daak turn and climb the three steps to the weapons platform . |
| 12 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 13 | Oxfam sent out three engineers to the camps who installed water shortage , er , er water storage equipment . |
| 14 | Cooks Adele Haley and Jacquie Haworth do everything from fish frying to peeling onions in the massive team effort which brings up to 600 lunches to the tables in the student and staff refectories . |
| 15 | The skipper steered the vessel at ninety degrees to the waves , careful to tackle them head on . |
| 16 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 17 | On one occasion he played an active role in destroying a German column which yielded twenty-five trucks and three tanks to the partisans . |
| 18 | Negotiations have also commenced with the local authorities regarding the railway 's long term aids — to relay the track a further three miles to the outskirts of Bath — and initial reactions to these plans have been encouraging . |
| 19 | " Well , could it be , sir , " I broached , leafing furiously through my dictionary , " that since this is the last Big One it might be , er , acceptable to send these sixty houses to the stars with — his Highness , your dad ? " |
| 20 | ‘ Last year there were 316,000 visitors to the sites that we police — and what is heartening is that there was not one single complaint against us , ’ emphasised Hugh . |
| 21 | If you left hundred and fifty thousand to the children and fifty thousand to your spouse , there would be exemption gifts to spouse no tax on that , exemption first hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the children no tax on that , so on your death no tax . |
| 22 | It will also be specially targeted at pensioners and disabled people who do not currently pay rates , a decision which will probably add 400,000 pensioners to the beneficiaries . |
| 23 | There are 3 heads to the triceps ; 2 of them have their origins on the humerus and the third originates on the shoulder blade . |
| 24 | Due to popular demand ( a letter from Corky 's mum — Ed ) ( nice one , ma — Corky ) , coin-operated Caswell has been allowed to take a pocketful of ten pees to the arcades again . |
| 25 | In 1762 the Langdale bailiff for Lord Muncaster was paid on two small accounts , 3s. for 6 journeys to the copper mines , and 1s. for each of 3 visits to the mines . |
| 26 | Ten pounds to the winners , plus an extra fiver for Bill Greenwell and George Simmers . |
| 27 | Laird scissored with his stand-off and then displayed both pace and power to race 50 metres to the Colleges line where , although tackled , he popped up a pass to fellow-centre Willie Weatherhead who scored , Livingstone converting . |
| 28 | This is the name for wavelengths longer than light , from the red edge of the visible spectrum at 0.7 micrometres to the borders of the radio region at 1000 mm ( 1 mm ) . |
| 29 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 30 | Saturday 's stage to Nanterre , another 210 kilometres to the suburbs of Paris , need not be a triumphal procession . |