Example sentences of "[adv prt] to half [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 2 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 3 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 4 | ‘ I told them I was n't interested , so it went up to half a million . |
| 5 | The scale of the problem of elder abuse is highlighted by a study last year , which suggested that up to half a million elderly people may be suffering abuse from carers or relatives . |
| 6 | Hardship is clearly caused to disabled people ( 40,000 on government estimates , up to half a million according to the Disablement Income Group ) who are able to live in the community . |
| 7 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 8 | Up to half a dozen may break the barrier . |
| 9 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 10 | Up to half a dozen years ago any invitation by the government that offered users meaningful involvement in planning community care would have been seen as unrealistic and even cynical . |
| 11 | In time , this practice led to highways with up to half a dozen parallel tracks ; the one in use at any given moment depending on the weather and on how much maintenance local labourers had carried out . |
| 12 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 13 | In these up to half the annual output may occur in the three or four weeks of springtime thaw . |