Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever |
| 2 | Lacrosse can focus on a small area and resolve details down to perhaps a metre , or sacrifice clarity to cover a larger area . |
| 3 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 4 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 5 | Oh , yes , because rings come in to quite a bit of wear do n't they ? |
| 6 | I walked through to where a Chief-Corporal was standing behind a table . |
| 7 | One set of doors led through to where a sign marked ‘ The Studio ’ took me down a flight of stairs to the basement beneath , the cosiness and warmth of which was a welcomed contrast to the watery excesses above . |
| 8 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 9 | Ira Sanchez was looking at the birds ; then he glanced up to where a man was taking bets on the far side . |
| 10 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |
| 11 | Three quarters of the respondents were using their system up to twice a week . |
| 12 | I saw a psychiatrist often during my stay , up to once a day , although the sessions seemed more like informal chats . |
| 13 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 14 | Up to now a current appeared to be absolutely essential for creating a magnetic flux . |
| 15 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 16 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 17 | A short time later they went out to where a bay gelding and a grey mare were tethered and , after instructing her concerning the correct side to mount , he gave her a leg up . |
| 18 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |