Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] to [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent . |
| 2 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 3 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 4 | Born with a kidney defect , he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy . |
| 5 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 6 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 7 | The Royal Air Force wants up to 2000 rounds of whichever type the ministry selects . |
| 8 | Turkey , which seized the northern third of Cyprus in 1974 and still has up to 30,000 troops here , withheld immediate comment on Mr Clerides ' victory . |
| 9 | THE former Soviet Union 's Aeroflot is by far the world 's largest airline-it has up to 1,500 aircraft and provides about a tenth of all air travel . |
| 10 | It has up to four motherboards , each with 16 fully switched High Performance Transputer Modules . |
| 11 | Ostend Ferries : P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has up to six sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Ostend , crossing time four hours ; a 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 depending on sailing . |
| 12 | The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level . |
| 13 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 14 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 15 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 16 | It has up to 64 input-output channels , supports TCP/IP and Ethernet , has C++ , C , and Fortran libraries with VAX extensions , supports Oracle in a client-server environment and fits in a deskside cabinet 29″ by 18″ by 30″ . |
| 17 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 18 | It contains up to four motherboards , each with sixteen fully switched High Performance Transputer Modules . |
| 19 | Microsoft 's simple arithmetic adds up to 25,000 people who know something about NT . |
| 20 | In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service . |
| 21 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 22 | It holds up to four yarns and costs just £3.95 plus 25p for postage and packing from . |
| 23 | And the automatic sheet feeder holds up to 10 sheets of paper . |
| 24 | It holds up to three horses and will be driven to and from London by Mrs Charley from their home just outside Coventry . |
| 25 | Famine causes up to 100,000 deaths . |
| 26 | The R4000 SuperMax comes in an eight CPU configuration and incorporates up to eight disk controllers , 20Gb disk and can support up to 1,000 workstations — prices start go from £30,000 to £300,000 . |
| 27 | Jerry , who drives for contractor Denby Transport , covers up to 2,000 miles during each five-day round trip , using the Dover-Calais ferry crossing . |
| 28 | The course , which crosses a narrow railway bridge and a major road , climbs from 160 feet above sea level to 368 feet , drops back to 303 feet , then climbs again to the finish which is 450 feet above sea level . |
| 29 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 30 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |