Example sentences of "to 10 [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 These latter values are similar to those from 40 additional subjects studied since April 1989 ( 0.5 to 10 mol/L ) .
2 It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better !
3 It can also be recognized after etching , especially on a universal stage : dolomite remains at 30 µm , giving fourth- and fifth-order pinks and greens , while calcite is reduced to 10 µm or so , giving second- and third-order reds , blues and yellows ( Dickson , 1966 , p. 491 ) .
4 After 10 min , heparin was added up to 10 µg/ml and incubation continued for either 15 seconds or 10 min ( indicated in the figure as +h and +H , respectively ) .
5 The deal will lift its share of the Spanish soft drinks market from 8 to 10 per cent and of the Portuguese market from 3 to 8 per cent .
6 The aim of the traffic engineers was to cut car journeys by up to 10 per cent , creating congestion-free running for buses , goods vehicles and the remaining cars .
7 Hi-Tec Sports is the UK market leader in sports shoes but trading profit margins were reduced by nearly four percentage points to 10 per cent on turnover of £36.84m , up from £32.93m .
8 Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported .
9 Rabkrin ( the Central Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ) calculated that at the start of 1923 from 20 to 26 per cent of all village Soviet business lay in this sphere , whereas cultural and commune activities took up only 5 to 10 per cent of their time .
10 They were losing money on their early tours so to help them I dropped the touring commission to 10 per cent .
11 Given certain other conditions such as a high rate of growth in at least one manufacturing sector and a favourable institutional environment , an increase in the rate of net investment from say 5 to 10 per cent of national income could put a country on the path to self-sustaining growth .
12 The US operating margin was narrowly the highest , but the rise of over half in interest charges limited the rise in pre-tax profit for the whole group to 10 per cent , at £427million .
13 Although the association recommends acceptance , its leaders are sceptical that the 5,000 members will agree , and disappointed that the offer was not increased to 10 per cent during 22 hours of talks .
14 Often only after the transaction has been completed will the customer be made aware of the commission involved — sometimes up to 10 per cent of the amount being changed .
15 Mr Giles Phillips , catchment control officer for the Thames areas , said that voluntary restraint had saved up to 10 per cent of water supplies .
16 ‘ The experience in Australia was that the Lotto game , where six numbers out of 45 are drawn each week , reduced our football pools ’ take to 10 per cent of the previous figure .
17 If the rate of return was increased to 10 per cent , a more realistic figure , Jenkin considered that ‘ the economics of a new nuclear station are significantly adverse against all the alternatives ’ .
18 As a rough rule of thumb there seems to be a ratio of 90 per cent teacher comment of the ‘ do n't do ’ and ‘ stop it ’ variety to 10 per cent praise .
19 Adding bearings to a building can increase the cost by up to 10 per cent .
20 Freeman ( 1980 ) estimates that 80 per cent of Bolivia 's farmlands and grazing areas are eroded in varying degrees , and rangelands are degraded down to 10 per cent of their original productivity .
21 For example , Beveridge allowed pensioners only 75 per cent of the scientific food value regarded as necessary for ‘ physical efficiency ’ , in addition to 10 per cent for special food needs .
22 Type 4 hyperlipidaemia , representing mainly hypertriglyceridaemia , was also increased at 18 per cent in the diabetics compared to 10 per cent in controls .
23 Only 5 to 10 per cent of successful candidates get university places , and in the present economic climate employment in the civil service is not particularly attractive .
24 The schools where staff had made little or no input into financial decisions were both experiencing cutbacks equivalent to a cut of 5 per cent to 10 per cent of teaching staff .
25 Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace .
26 Slackness in the official compilation and in-between-election-activity by the Labour Party has always carried a penalty of up to 10 per cent for Labour , but what emerged from a comparison of the electorates of 1987 and 1992 in the six Edinburgh constituencies was a drop of 14,737 electors .
27 The secular decline in the Sinn Féin vote — from a peak of 13.4 per cent in 1983 to 10 per cent on April 9 — meant that Mr Adams ' seat would surely fall at some point .
28 The reduction of the Government 's fossil fuel levy on bills to 10 per cent will save a typical family £2.45 a year .
29 The increases , ranging from 4.5 per cent to 10 per cent , will push the price of a Fiesta 1.1 from £6,215 to £6,495 , and an Escort Cosworth from £22,555 to £24,810 .
30 The Government has reduced its fossil fuel levy on bills to 10 per cent which will save a typical family £2.45 a year .
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