Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually . |
| 2 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 3 | By lap 10 they were 20 sec ahead of the rest , and by lap 20 they had stretched that gap to 40 sec , before a rash of pit-stops for tyre changes interfered with the order . |
| 4 | The agreement , which came after five hours of talks , established ceilings for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries which restricted each side to 20,000 tanks , 20,000 artillery pieces and 30,000 fighting vehicles . |
| 5 | The Treaty imposed equal ceilings on non-nuclear weapons located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Ural Mountains , restricting each side to 20,000 tanks , 20,000 artillery pieces , 30,000 armoured combat vehicles , 6,800 combat aircraft and 2,000 attack helicopters . |
| 6 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 7 | She arrived at Manchester Airport this morning to make a private visit this afternoon to four MacIntyre homes in Wirral . |
| 8 | A lot of small codling in the Menai Straits , plus a few dabs to 1 lb at Port Dinorwic and Beaumaris . |
| 9 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 10 | In this form it will handle 600 activities ; a memory expansion unit to raise this figure to 3000 activities is expected to be available in 1990 . |
| 11 | Cardiff and Penarth charter boats took a few cod to 14 lb . |
| 12 | Balcary flat rock and point produced a few cod to 28 lb . |
| 13 | There is merit in confining all this data to one sheet of paper . |
| 14 | There is merit in confining all this data to one sheet of paper . |
| 15 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 16 | UNDER not the most comfortable of titles , this follow-up to Twelve Days of Grace ( reviewed WCM Oct '89 ) serves up studies of six further contemporaries of W.G. Grace , all models of far-sweeping research . |
| 17 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |
| 18 | Electronic databases which are copyrightable have the same length of protection that all ‘ literary works ’ obtain which , in the UK , is the life of the author and 50 years ( it should also be noted that there is currently another proposed Directive which will harmonise and extend this period to 70 years ) . |
| 19 | Chub the main feeders and legered meat took a few fish to 4 lb at Mardon , Lugg Mill , Longworth Mill and Mordiford . |
| 20 | The UN International Atomic Energy Agency requested a special inspection after it was denied access early this month to two buildings at the Yongbyon nuclear complex . |
| 21 | THE competition to find a new dinghy to be sailed by young people aged from 11 to 15 was narrowed down this week to two boats . |
| 22 | And after all this questioning to one end , now you have nothing to ask ! ’ |
| 23 | He reduced this approach to six principles , which make a good summary of the essentials of political Realism . |
| 24 | The Committee proposed to raise the maximum penalty for this offence to five years , but limited its recommendation to cases where D actively deceives V and failed to make any provision for cases where D takes advantage of a known mistake . |
| 25 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 26 | At half-term , Ali had offered ten pounds to any of ‘ the proud Muslim people of South-West London ’ who would be prepared to finish off Robert Wilson , but , even though he had raised this sum to twelve pounds fifty , there were , so far at any rate , no takers . |
| 27 | The number of visitors passing through the reception at John Wood House has increased from 852 in May of this year to 1,255 people in November . |
| 28 | Now , in West Caulder th the charge erm amounted this year to forty pound , that 's for nineteen ninety one cos they 're always a year behind . |
| 29 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 30 | Page 30 Cluff glitters : Rising gold production pushed Cluff Resources ' pre-tax profits for the half year to 30 June up ninefold to £790,000 and strengthened the possibility that the group could pay a maiden dividend this year . |