Example sentences of "reach the target " in BNC.

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1 These had risen by 70,000 in the month from mid-August , and Mr Murdoch said the group was likely to reach the target of one million homes by 1 February 1990 .
2 The aim is to reach the target of a million contributions by December 11 .
3 It is a good idea to supplement the exercise circuits with a measured , timed two-mile walk on those days without circuit training ; the walk can be increased in speed gradually to reach the target heart rates mentioned above .
4 Also the subject of discussion and refinement during the first term are the number of offers to be made for each field to reach the target ( the offer ratio ) and the A level grades normally required for entry .
5 And er that had to be regulated , regulated as far as fairness and response to er any claim that our members may make in respect of fairness you know , er and it , to enable them to reach the target bonus .
6 Perhaps the equipment is inadequate to reach the target : for example salesmen may need sales training for the new product line .
7 Estimate the fixed switching angle which minimises the time taken to reach the target .
8 The motor accelerates rapidly to high speeds and deceleration is initiated at a point where the maximum rate of deceleration enables the load to reach the target position with zero speed .
9 The UNEP Executive Director , Mostafa Tolba , said that this target would require governments to " increase their voluntary contributions by 35 per cent annually for the next three years to reach the target " .
10 The economy failed the March test under the IMF agreement by failing to reach the target for foreign reserves .
11 The exact time taken by the computer to reach the target does n't matter .
12 What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years .
13 Montgomerie hit a 3-wood to the 200-yard fourth and failed to reach the target .
14 The home side resumed their second innings on the final day needing 33 more runs to win with five wickets in hand , and Rutherford and Tony Blain took only 29 minutes to reach the target of 201 .
15 The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion .
16 The simplest form of open-loop control ( Fig. 6.2 ) is a constant stepping rate which is applied to the motor until the load reaches the target position .
17 When the load reaches the target the downcounter contents are zero and this zero count is used to generate the clock STOP signal .
18 Set a massive 440 after being dismissed for a paltry 96 in their first innings , the champions showed their pedigree by reaching the target with four wickets to spare .
19 Before attempting to produce chimaeras it is advisable to practice the injection procedures , given in Table 12 , using readily identified solutions or suspensions , such as pontamine sky blue or India ink , or cells labelled with a fluorescein dye , to establish that the injection pipette is consistently reaching the target area .
20 The compromise nevertheless allowed individual member states to diverge from this target , with the UK retaining its less ambitious aim of reaching the target by 2005 rather than 2000 , and Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain also not taking on a 2000 target for their individual performance .
21 Offerton lost eight wickets in reaching the target .
22 The East region committee and supporters were thrilled in early January when the extent of team support for a field Officer reached the target for the first year .
23 Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life .
24 Damnably , gouts of plasma from Valence often interfered , detonating shells before they even reached the target 's void shield .
25 Each member of staff was allocated a time on the machine , and Chief Manager Roddy Reid pledged £25 provided staff reached the target of 100 miles .
26 A second run of the computer began with the phrase : Y YVMQKZPFJXWVHGLAWFVCHQXYOPY , passed through ( again reporting only every tenth generation ) : Y YVMQKSPFTHWSHLIKEFV HQYSPY YTHINKSPITXISHLIKEFA WQYSEY METHINKS IT ISSLIKE A WEFSEY METHINKS IT ISBLIKE A WEASES METHINKS IT ISJLIKE A WEASEO METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEP and reached the target phrase in generation 64 .
27 Achievement , I think you might say an achievement is when you reach the target , that 's been an achievement , yeah .
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