Example sentences of "to [adj] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
| 2 | The 25th Anniversary campaign had dramatic results : individual membership increased from 25,000 at the end of 1985 to 35,000 at the end of 1986 : a full 30 per cent increase in one year . |
| 3 | Gary Moore uses an idea similar to this at the end of the first verse of the track Story Of The Blues , from his ‘ After Hours ’ album . |
| 4 | It will be down to 37,000 at the end of this year . ’ |
| 5 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 6 | In South America , the UNHCR recorded 1,200,000 people as refugees , while in Europe and North America the number of those seeking asylum rose from 22,320 in 1986 to 1,687,200 at the end of 1990 . |
| 7 | According to the association 's annual survey , the number of robots in Britain grew from 713 a year earlier to 1152 at the end of 1982 . |
| 8 | The $489m loss for 1992 means that another 10,000 to 15,000 more jobs are going to have to go at the company as part of the continuing restructuring plan — its payroll actually rose to 252,000 at the end of 1992 from 240,000 in 1991 . |
| 9 | Currently it runs on Solaris 1.0 and will be upgrade to 2.0 at the end of the year . |
| 10 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 11 | The Lukac brothers spearheaded a second-period revival to take their team to 8-6 at the end of the second but Hawks managed to take the final period 3-1 and tie the game 9-9 . |
| 12 | In the end 128 days without an LTI were achieved before the time-clock was returned to zero at the end of August . |
| 13 | to 2,501,943 at the end of December , and finally reached 5,201,919 in March 1991 before being renamed the gold cordoba on March 4 and set at 5.0726 to the US dollar . |
| 14 | The annual report for 1992 showed the workforce was cut to 16,982 at the end of last year from 18,215 a year earlier , Reuter notes . |
| 15 | But , to the amusement of all in the hall , his support increased fourfold over the course of the debate from one vote at the beginning to four at the end . |
| 16 | His claim of 75,000 members in September 1890 was reduced to 40,000 at the end of the year , with 60,000 in " financial " membership , i.e. including those who had paid entrance fees . |
| 17 | Unemployment rose from 272,000 in July ( 3.1 per cent of the workforce ) to 350,000 at the end of August ( 4.17 per cent of the workforce ) , with an additional 10 per cent of the workforce employed only on a short-time basis . |
| 18 | IN the first six months of 1992 , 35,750 households lost their homes ( which could mean nearly as many repossessions as last year ) ; and , even worse , at the end of June 1992 , 305,140 households were in arrears of six months or more , compared to 275,350 at the end of 1991 , suggesting a rising trend . |