Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Fanshawe 's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six lengths win from Absalom 's Pillar . |
| 2 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 3 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 4 | Schoolgirl Claire romped to a straight sets win in her fourth round tie with Anglesey 's Bonnie Williams and without conceding a game . |
| 5 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 6 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 7 | Compared with the number of dogs who are registered , entries to shows are quite small : fifty to a hundred entries compared with 3,000 registrations for 1986 . |
| 8 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 9 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 10 | Up to a dozen viewers had heard my throwaway remarks and had assumed that the party at Frenchay really would be out in the street . |
| 11 | The British population stands at under forty pairs ; up to a dozen pairs breed at Leighton Moss . |
| 12 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Coula trees grow close together at Taï , and so coula-nut-cracking is often quite a social activity , with up to a dozen chimpanzees feeding together . |
| 14 | In a attempt to reduce sectarian attacks by the three known UFF units in the Shankill area , up to a dozen policemen have been instructed shadow top loyalist suspects round the clock . |
| 15 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 16 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 17 | Here is an example of a letter to a large clothes store : |
| 18 | Yidana had reported the results of his investigation to a Special Investigations Board , which concluded that 10 people should be prosecuted for murder , including the head of National Security . |
| 19 | EUROPEAN lightweight champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy of France cruised to a comfortable points win after a disappointing display by Britain 's Paul Burke in Paris last night . |
| 20 | Curbishley already had the English schools time , thanks to a 44.3 secs run in her first track outing at Hull this season , before she was injured in a 400 metres hurdles race at York . |
| 21 | A feature of their new show is a hilarious This Is Your Life , where they ad-lib a potted biography of a victim in the audience to a few hints given by the subject 's so-called friends , and the Christmas Story enacted in a series of styles chosen by those there on the night-Joseph and Mary as a double glazing sales force , for example , sounds tasteless but it 's all surprisingly inoffensive and very funny . |
| 22 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 23 | I must confess to a profound sense of foreboding upon making this observation which de-generated into abject horror upon hearing the said track and realising that Oldfield 's contribution amounted to a few bars sampled from ‘ Tubular Bells ’ ! |
| 24 | Exploring how nineteen carers , known to a social services support group , experienced the caring relationship , Ungerson ( 1987 , p. 15 ) focused on : |