Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all down to the two relative people concerned . |
| 2 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 3 | Down to the 1987 general election and beyond , nationalization on the old pattern played an increasingly smaller role in Labour 's priorities . |
| 4 | It seems once the ice was broken and egos calmed , getting down to the eight key tasks with help from outsiders did not seem so bad after all . |
| 5 | There must be countless ways to cover a wall but let's narrow it down to the three basic choices : paint , paper or fabric . |
| 6 | Before 1950 there was no regional TV station or transmitter : only Parisians could pick up a TV signal ; in 1958 only 50 per cent of the population could tune in to the one black-and-white TV channel . |
| 7 | However , there are plenty of storage areas plus a ‘ ski-flap ’ through to the 17 cubic feet boot for long , thin items . |
| 8 | From the 1985 White Paper through to the 1988 Cecchini Report , it is evident that the projected benefits resulting from the SEM programme are expected to result to a large extent from the exploitation of potential scale economies . |
| 9 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 10 | Erm what , what we do today is to way go back over some of the ideas about land reform and then carry them through to the ninety fifty er Agrarian Reform Bill . |
| 11 | Feeling very grown-up and wise , Maud and Mildred sauntered casually over to the two pathetic little girls . |
| 12 | She glanced over to the two male nursing orderlies testing an oxygen tent in the far corner . |
| 13 | They ran over to the two prostrate travellers , and danced insanely around them . |
| 14 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 15 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 16 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 17 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 18 | My guess is about 2 million with up to a million more with decent European runs/ cup runs etc . |
| 19 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 20 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast to mark the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 21 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
| 22 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 23 | But at a conference today , chief executives of some of the country 's biggest companies have been hearing how up to a thousand new jobs could be created . |
| 24 | Every day , anything up to a thousand illegal Asian workers are crowding into Tokyo 's main immigration bureau , asking to be deported . |
| 25 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 26 | It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable … |
| 27 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 28 | Up to a dozen Tory MPs , alarmed at the threat of the loss of concessionary fares and line closures in the wake of privatisation , were said to be ready to defy the Government . |
| 29 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 30 | ‘ Brodetto ’ is a traditional fish soup concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish with their flavours enriched with generous use of olive oil , onion , herbs and garlic . |