Example sentences of "of [adv] [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University of Stirling is one of only 27 universities to be connected to the Joint Academic NETwork [ JANET ] , a national pilot project which has an authorised expenditure of £5 million in its first year . |
| 2 | He was aware of only one pay-out to a salmon farm , and he was not sure if that money had come from the emergency fund . |
| 3 | This combination means tides could leap from a level of nearly five metres to over six metres and flooding could occur . |
| 4 | They can be thought of as seven tests to be applied . |
| 5 | There was a drop of about six feet to the top of the window beneath , and an equal drop to that on the first floor . |
| 6 | You want somewhere in the region of about four engineers to each school so work it out yourself , it 's quite a job to actually get the ratio right . |
| 7 | The ambassadors to the European Communities ( EC ) , and to France and five other countries were also replaced ; nine embassies and 11 consulates general were to be abolished , and the staff of about 20 others to be severely cut . |
| 8 | If you let go of it before the fire button is released , the ball is kicked at an angle of about 20 degrees to the direction of travel — ideal for shots at goal . |
| 9 | As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . |
| 10 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 11 | For example , a rate of seven circuits per second means a distance from hive to food of about 400 yards to an Apis mellifera carnica , 330 yards to an Apis mellifera mellifera , or 260 yards to an Apis mellifera ligustica . |
| 12 | There seemed to be fluctuations and cycles , from one of about twenty seconds to one corresponding to the monthly lunar cycle . |
| 13 | Thus , a global system of Plate Tectonics is not revealed by the topography , though it would require resolution of about 15 km to firmly rule it out . |
| 14 | It would bring a windfall of around 300,000 smackers to the Manor . |
| 15 | At the same time Gascoyne took the opportunity of surveying the whole of Cornwall ; as a result of this new field-work a map , dedicated to Charles Bodville Robartes , second Earl of Radnor and lord lieutenant of Cornwall , was published on 27 March 1699 ; it is on what was for the period the large scale of almost one inch to the mile . |
| 16 | EUP 's business manager Allan Woods remembers 20 years ago when the press could rely on sales of almost 1,000 copies to institutions throughout the world . |
| 17 | Paisley responded with public protest meetings and a march of over 6,000 loyalists to the City Hall Cenotaph where Councillor James McCarroll , a Protestant Unionist and an elder of Paisley 's church , laid a wreath : ‘ In memory of the members of the UVF , RUC and other civilian population [ sic ] who died in defence of the Ulster Constitution at the hands of Rebel Forces during and since the 1916 rising . ’ |
| 18 | Jean Jones , chair of Wirral Deewatch , is to present a petition of over 3,000 signatures to NRA area general manager Roger Thomas , at Heswall sewage works next week . |
| 19 | All proposals for plantations of over 10 hectares to be subject to licensing . |
| 20 | Approval was given and reclamation started on an area of over 20 hectares to the North of Imperial Dock . |
| 21 | He was veterinary surgeon to the London Zoological Society , and made a loan of his magnificent library of over 400 volumes to the Veterinary Medical Association library at the College . |