Example sentences of "down to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
| 2 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 3 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 6 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 7 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 8 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 9 | Visibility was down to a few yards . |
| 10 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |