Example sentences of "to a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as Greve points out , in five years the rail journey between Paris , Brussels and Cologne will be reduced to a mere two hours and thirty-five minutes . |
| 2 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 3 | As Frank takes to the skies in a light aircraft , his instructor collapses from a heart attack , and Frank bounces the plane off a road , sticks his leg out , spirals from 3,000 feet to a mere 250 feet , and narrowly misses the control tower . |
| 4 | However , one report that took nearly two hours using version 4.2 was reduced to a mere 20 minutes using version 4.5 . |
| 5 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
| 6 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 7 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 8 | If the establishment has substantial special function business , e.g. banquets , weddings , dances , dinners , conferences , etc. , it is usual to open a separate special functions day book which is posted to a composite special functions debtors account in the ledger . |
| 9 | As the smiles go to prove , it was the perfect ending to a perfect two days — and all thanks to Wella . |
| 10 | It can live for 10 years , and grow to a substantial 20 kilograms . |
| 11 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 12 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 13 | It is time to give serious consideration to a standing United Nations army , perhaps paid for by the rich and manned by the poor of the world . |
| 14 | Hence , Herring et al. ( 1988 ) described the design of SQL extensions to a new object-oriented GIS ; Abel ( 1988 ) has reported work on the creation of SQL-based spatial extensions to a relational database in the ‘ Spatial Information in a Relational Open-architecture database management system ’ ( SIRO-DBMS ) project ; and Ingram and Phillips ( 1988 ) have designed spatial extensions to a hybrid GIS data model . |
| 15 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 16 | Last year , however , they had a spectacular reconciliation , fell into each other 's arms , quaffed champagne and gave birth to a new double Fabris-Petrides certificate ( tariff : £250 for a drawing , £300 for a painting ) . |
| 17 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 18 | Sterling climbed to a healthy 2.50 marks before falling back later to 2.47 . |
| 19 | But at a conference today , chief executives of some of the country 's biggest companies have been hearing how up to a thousand new jobs could be created . |
| 20 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 21 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 22 | For Scottish couple Annie and Lachlan Stewart , what started off as a fun Christmas exhibition in their London home has led to a flourishing tartan ceramics business and the relocation of their company , ANTA , to the north of Scotland . |
| 23 | He grew up to a lithe 5 feet 11¼ inches and 10½ stone . |
| 24 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 25 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
| 26 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |
| 27 | Zoos are host to a great many viruses . |
| 28 | This is not always so , but according to a great many sportsmen , their overconcentration on sport , often as a result of the encouragement of teachers , led to a neglect of academic work with the consequence that examination results failed to convey accurately what they felt to be their actual capability . |
| 29 | Professional markers are a superb sketching medium , adaptable to a great many styles and very fast to use . |
| 30 | Avoiding the foods in question may be quite difficult , especially at school or with friends , and you may wish to reconsider other options , especially if your child is not affected all that severely or if he reacts to a great many foods . |