Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 2 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 3 | According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ . |
| 4 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 5 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 6 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 7 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 8 | As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) . |
| 9 | The juveniles could be brought into a place of safety and passed along to one of the agencies for intensive counselling , but the rest of them — those over eighteen , and who were neither obviously offending nor mentally ill — were free agents . |
| 10 | absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six . |
| 11 | The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts . |
| 12 | The next day a series of fighter attacks was launched against Palestinian positions , killing as many as 20 guerrillas and wounding up to 60 other people , including a group of 10 schoolchildren in Abra . |
| 13 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 14 | Selahattin Simsek is currently being held in Bursa Special Type Prison and has up to eight more years of his sentence to serve . |
| 15 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 16 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 17 | The lower Auchtertyre horizon is about 80 m thick over a strike length of 8 km and contains up to 1.6 per cent Zn and 0.1 per cent Cu over 3 m ( MRP 93 ; Fortey and Smith , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |
| 19 | Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas . |
| 20 | The R4000 SuperMax comes in an eight CPU configuration and incorporates up to eight disk controllers , 20Gb disk and can support up to 1,000 workstations — prices start go from £30,000 to £300,000 . |
| 21 | One process known as ‘ NOx Out ’ uses urea and achieves up to 80 per cent reduction at a quarter the cost of SCR . |
| 22 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |
| 23 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 24 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 25 | It has 14 individual funds and allows up to four switches without charge in any calendar year . |
| 26 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 27 | Place fingertips on the larynx whilst you hum and feel the tingling on your lips , and count up to ten or say a simple phrase in your loudest voice and at the same time concentrate on the feeling on the finger tips . |
| 28 | Porters South is a former three-storey beer-bottling plant , built in brick and dating back to 1904 . |
| 29 | In nature males form what is termed a ‘ lek ’ , ie. they have adjoining territories and show off to one another and attempt to seduce any passing females . |
| 30 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |