Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 3 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 4 | Normally pear-sized , the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy . |
| 5 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp will this week debut its second generation massively parallel system , the MP-2 , claiming it delivers up to five times the performance of its existing MP-1 . |
| 6 | Garlic is one of the most widely used aphrodisiacs around the world , with a pedigree that stretches back to ancient times . |
| 7 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 8 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 9 | Goes back to Homeric times . ’ |
| 10 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 11 | In the limit B 0 , the complex map can be approximated by the real noninvertible map where I = E. Introduction of a finite value for augments the left side of the above by a term , and the index n gives over to continuous time t . |
| 12 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 14 | Boundary Routing — according to the company — enables up to 10 times as many remote site connections to be added without increasing administrative resources . |
| 15 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 16 | The lower half of the tower dates back to Saxon times . |