Example sentences of "a [noun] to [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden . |
| 2 | But the troubles of the industry began well before Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait sent the price of jet fuel from 60 cents a gallon to more than $1.30 . |
| 3 | The cost of a gallon of petrol is going up again from tomorrow , Shell is increasing the cost of the petrol by 3.2 pence a gallon to more than two pound thirty-four pence and other oil companies are thought likely to follow suit . |
| 4 | Jockey to get a good slot , forcing a gap to leeward where possible and not letting anyone sail over you to windward . |
| 5 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 6 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 7 | It should produce quick and clear decisions before each merger is completed and should not require a reference to more than one authority . |
| 8 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 9 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 10 | The frequency with which arrhythmias and syncope occur varies considerably , from several times a day to less than once every several years . |
| 11 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 12 | It is indicative , too , when a mistle thrush changes his tune , forgets to repeat his challenging spring song and slips down self-consciously into the lower boughs of a larch to all but whisper a softer , lazier , persuasive serenade . |
| 13 | With such an Army Iran can resist Communist pressures and build the country into a showcase to so that other peoples can see that it is possible to work with the West and get more effective support than countries such as Egypt receive . " |
| 14 | ‘ In the oil firing trials in the early 1970's , steam raising was satisfactory , but the design of the fireboxes and the expansion and contraction across the tubeplates reduced the life of a firebox to less than two years . |
| 15 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 16 | If the lexical analyser tries to expand a line to more than 255 characters , a " Line space " error will be reported . |
| 17 | In 1987 dirt-poor Bolivia , which cut inflation from 20,000% a year to less than 10% , was allowed to use borrowed money to buy back most of its commercial-bank debt at 11% of the face value . |
| 18 | The company 's touring unit now gives around 300 performances a year to more than 37,000 people . |
| 19 | Schmeicel — on a trip to nowhere when the cross came in — he was a little obstructed — but for a big guy playing in the english league he should really have no problems with that one . |
| 20 | There are shops , arcades , street cafès and a must is a visit to either or both of the world-renowned motor museums of Mercedes Benz and Porsche . |
| 21 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 22 | Perryman 's relief came in the 52nd minute when Ken Charlery , his Pounds 350,000 signing from Peterborough , scored his third goal in seven matches to bring an end to more than 400 minutes of League football without Watford scoring . |
| 23 | At a rally orchestrated by a housewife and inspired by last weekend 's IRA bombing in Warrington , a series of speakers echoed pleas for an end to more than two decades of terror . |
| 24 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |