Example sentences of "to a [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 3 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 4 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 5 | In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 6 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 7 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast to mark the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 8 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
| 9 | Len 's mining area the Rhondda now has no pits , when once it gave work to a hundred thousand men . |
| 10 | Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend . |
| 11 | The internal fax was addressed to a dozen civil servants within the Department of Social Security . |
| 12 | ‘ Brodetto ’ is a traditional fish soup concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish with their flavours enriched with generous use of olive oil , onion , herbs and garlic . |
| 13 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 14 | Up to a dozen Tory MPs , alarmed at the threat of the loss of concessionary fares and line closures in the wake of privatisation , were said to be ready to defy the Government . |
| 15 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |