Example sentences of "to [adj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 2 | She could n't hold the challenge of Kostroma in the straight , but second place brought her earnings worldwide to half a million pounds . |
| 3 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 4 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 5 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 6 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
| 7 | Defence is provided in West Germany by armed forces whose number totals close to half a million men and women . |
| 8 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 9 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 10 | Up to half a dozen years ago any invitation by the government that offered users meaningful involvement in planning community care would have been seen as unrealistic and even cynical . |
| 11 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 12 | I do n't know I mean I think it depends how you d whether it is as formal as that or whether you almost do it by saying to er to half a dozen careers officers and half a dozen employment officers , Fill that , you know , Fill that in . |
| 13 | To satisfy its taste for diversity , a hare tries to pick an area where it has access to half a dozen fields . |
| 14 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |
| 15 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |