Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Newbegin said Go-Ahead Northern is currently taking delivery of 30 new single deck buses which will bring the average age down to 9.1 years by May . |
| 2 | Benefits of the system include a shortening of the production line by 400 metres and a saving in manufacturing time of 24% ( down to 26 hours for Safrane , as opposed to 34 hours for the Renault 25 ) . |
| 3 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 4 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 6 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 7 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 8 | Can you narrow it down to various professions on the er expectancies ? |
| 9 | Leaving aside manslaughter and causing death by reckless driving , offences discussed in the previous chapter , the ladder of offences runs from reckless driving , through drunken driving and careless driving , down to various offences of failure to obey traffic signs and failure to maintain a vehicle in a roadworthy state . |
| 10 | Some women have found that they need to take evening primrose oil for only ten days before their period but , until your PMS eases , it is a good idea to take the capsules every day and then try cutting down to ten-14 days before your period . |
| 11 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 12 | The tiny protection parties for these three squads were down to 10 men through casualties before landing , but they led the way , stifling small arms fire from near the burning Forge de l'Ouest , then clearing an enemy trench in a skirmish round a dockside crane . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe Celtic lost 1–0 to Rangers down to 10 men in the midst of their worst run for ten years . |
| 14 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 15 | Visibility on the M3 in Hampshire was down to 100 yards in places , while heavy frost was making driving ‘ tricky ’ in Dorset . |
| 16 | The back scooped down to 4 inches below my waist , but the weight of the beads stretched the base fabric and on the dress rehearsal , much to my embarrassment , the backless gown inched its way over my buttocks until it became not only backless but bottomless . |
| 17 | Above all , we must move junior doctors on to a shift system so that they do not work more than 60 hours , coming down to 56 hours in the most intensive posts . |
| 18 | Edna , worried about Celia , managed to get down to Four Winds for a little while each day and , as soon as Mrs Rafferty was discharged from hospital , resumed her duties with the child , who hardly let her out of her sight . |
| 19 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 20 | The issues boil down to four questions about corporate finance : |
| 21 | Most enclosed a gift — ‘ please , please accept it Hannah — I feel I owe you such a lot ’ — ranging from cheques up to one hundred pounds from people one hoped could afford it , down to postal orders for fifty pence from pensioners . |
| 22 | Also the M forty is down to two lanes in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame . |
| 23 | A slight divergence appears here in the separate chronologies ; Boswell gives the impression they danced after supper ; Johnson says , ‘ When it was time to sup , the dance ceased , and thirty persons sat down to two tables in the same room . |
| 24 | Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other . |
| 25 | In doing this you will probably find that you have become concerned , not simply with the particular task they have to carry out , but with their relations with other officers carrying out other tasks or involved with other aspects of the investigation you are writing about , even down to such matters of internal etiquette as how high does an officer have to rank before he can go into the office of a superior without knocking ? |
| 26 | A pilot hole will be drilled down to 1155 metres as a precautionary measure against shallow gas . |
| 27 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 28 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 29 | The ailerons droop down to fifteen degrees with the flaps to form full-span trailing-edge high-lift devices . |
| 30 | Quiet villages with ornate traditional balconies dot the north-west and you 'll find fertile valleys running down to tiny beaches throughout the north-east . |