Example sentences of "[num] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 2 | ‘ People here live long , ninety to a hundred years . |
| 3 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |
| 4 | Sources will be gas at temperatures of ten thousand to a million degrees ; they should include streamers of gas in double star systems , remains of old supernovae , and hot white dwarf stars . |
| 5 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 6 | The head of the decyphering branch of the foreign ministry there claimed in 1823 that he had personally broken eighty-five foreign codes , at a time when eighty to a hundred letters were being opened on each working day . |
| 7 | And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah . |
| 8 | An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch . |
| 9 | Compared with the number of dogs who are registered , entries to shows are quite small : fifty to a hundred entries compared with 3,000 registrations for 1986 . |
| 10 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 11 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 12 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 13 | Ponomarev 's calculation implied that there were 100 million to a billion fusions per second , that is 100 to 1000 in a muon 's lifetime , if nothing else ( such as sticking ) intervened . |