Example sentences of "to [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said and I told you he said six to eight weeks he said . |
| 2 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
| 3 | When you are in the air and have climbed to 800 feet you check all the cockpit instruments again . |
| 4 | One of the 20 to 2,000 facts you and I did n't know about Quisling which are in this book is that he was a lifelong bigamist . |
| 5 | But he admits , cost-effectiveness does depend on the number of users involved — with up to 100 users it is cheaper to use Unix , while he personally would n't suggest running a mainframe with fewer than 200 users . |
| 6 | ‘ I have seen them but if we can produce the form we have shown in our last eight to 10 games we can win , ’ said Rutter . |
| 7 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
| 8 | In the next 5 to 10 years it 'll come through strong . |
| 9 | So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations |
| 10 | Every five to six weeks we 'll send you a colour brochure about each new Vevay pack full of exclusive beauty products , every one specially matched to your skin type and colouring . |
| 11 | The form of the system would be settled within the next three to six months he said . |
| 12 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |
| 13 | Yesterday , police confirmed that , in addition to three fires they were already treating as arson , a fourth fire at a holiday home in Pennal , Meirionnydd , was being treated as suspicious . |
| 14 | So in other words if you 're there for two to three weeks you 're solidly for . |
| 15 | ‘ If I stick to 11 players we will not get promoted . |
| 16 | As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 . |
| 17 | MK 's controller can communicate with 32 peripheral devices ( either transmitters or receivers ) , and it can remember UP to 160 things it has to do every day , week or month . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 19 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 20 | But er he , he ca n't wait to get back , well he says he 's now ten days to ten days he told me . |
| 21 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 22 | But it 's when you 're built up to nine pints it makes you |
| 23 | Well when they was feeding these up , you could have one for yourself as long as you let the government have one , see , and er , er , of course the next to feed a pig up , see , but er , I mean if you could fed them properly you could erm , perhaps get one ready in er , six to nine months you see , and er , which would be a , a good bacon pig like , if you fed it er , correctly . |
| 24 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 25 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 26 | For four to five years he was in Paris and Rouen , with occasional visits to Italy . |
| 27 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 28 | For ten to twenty minutes he would lie there without moving , except for one eyebrow which jigged up and down while his mouth twitched sideways . |
| 29 | Even within twelve to eighteen months it was not likely that decisions could be made . |
| 30 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |