Example sentences of "and to [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 64,186 tonnes of insecticides were used on the republic 's cotton crops in 1975 ; this fell to 30,083 tonnes in 1985 , as the environmental implications of their use became evident , and to 2,586 tonnes in 1991 , following the end of the centrally planned system . |
| 2 | He sentenced both to four years in a young offenders centre for hijacking and to six months for criminal damage . |
| 3 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 4 | The proposals as reported to the planning applications sub-committee on January 8 will reduce the existing 225-space car park to 150 spaces during weekdays ( ie to two-thirds its present size ) and to 208 spaces on Saturdays ( ie to over four-fifths its present size ) . |
| 5 | The Oct. 25 agreement involved raising the notional rate used for the calculation of pensions , from 1,000 dinars to 1,800 dinars by Jan. 1 , 1991 and to 2,000 dinars by July 1 , 1991 . |
| 6 | Following his success in Come Blow Your Horn , theatre work was becoming more regular , and Crawford joined the New Shakespeare Company for an eight-week tour of Twelfth Night , which took him across England and to three venues in Portugal . |
| 7 | By 1896 leadership had passed to London and to three men — Hugh Price Hughes , C. A. Berry and Alexander Mackennal and there was a new emphasis . |
| 8 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively . |
| 10 | The current 37-hour working week ( reduced from 40 hours in 1984 ) was to be reduced to 36 hours from April 1 , 1993 , and to 35 hours from Oct. 1 , 1995 . |
| 11 | The machair landforms have been described by Mather and Ritchie ( 1977 ) and Ritchie ( 1979 ) as hilly , hillocky , undulating and plain and they also state that 87 per cent lie below 50 metres and 18 per cent below 10 metres O.D. Gneiss hills with smooth slopes facing the prevailing winds occur in some localities and blown sand has accumulated up to 100 metres on Eoligarry Hill ( Barra ) and to 150 metres on Pabbay ( Sound of Harris ) . |
| 12 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 13 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |