Example sentences of "[adv] to 30 " in BNC.

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1 Piggott , 57 on Thursday , puts his strength and stamina down to 30 years of top-class riding .
2 The Waltham , Massachusetts company had 50 employees when Intel bought it , but it is now down to 30 .
3 If improvement was achieved , prednisone was gradually reduced by 10 mg weekly decrements down to 30 mg .
4 The rings can then be split in to 30 different fractions , separated by partitions at the top of the tube .
5 A light chaise or unburdened pony could have extended this perhaps to 30 km ( 19 miles ) , but any distances above those quoted would have required an overnight stop and consequently an increase in the prices of the goods .
6 The average age of entry for the diploma course is between 18 and 20 , though some schools accept entrants as young as 17 , others students up to 30 : age between these limits is not likely to be a problem provided the candidate shows talent , flexibility and motivation .
7 Water discharged from Daresbury Power Station into the Bridgewater Canal kept the Goosberry Hollow to Norton Station stretch fishable and there were catches of up to 30 small roach and the odd skimmer bream .
8 At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein .
9 MR MICHAEL Howard , the Water Minister , yesterday effectively admitted that water shares have been underpriced as he formally closed the deadline for application amid City predictions that the issue will open at a premium of up to 30 per cent .
10 Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat .
11 Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday .
12 Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday .
13 THE price of water shares is expected to leap by up to 30 per cent when dealings start at 9.00am on Tuesday .
14 Up to 30 farms are being sought initially before scientists choose one which can be subjected to a systematic research programme in which partridges will be fitted with electronic tracking devices .
15 Strategy meetings were being attended by up to 30 people , including many of the ‘ old guard ’ of the party , brought in for the election .
16 America 's Merrill Lynch , broker to the issue , will be operating an American-style ‘ price stabilisation ’ programme for up to 30 days , similar to that enacted by Warburgs in the aftermath of the most recent British Telecom float .
17 Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed .
18 If found guilty , Mr McNamara , who has been charged with mail fraud , wire fraud , and money laundering , could face up to 30 years in jail , the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m .
19 Some of those attending were travelling up to 30 miles and acknowledged that they suffered some physical and mental fatigue but could make no suggestion as to how to avoid it .
20 It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device .
21 The report predicts that the large number of new product and packaging launches — up to 30 a year in each country for washing powder concentrates and liquids alone — will continue in the future .
22 Firstly , active and stabilised dune systems with irregular or moundy landforms comprise dune ridges and hillocks up to 30 metres high but , more usually , 5 metres high and 10 to 20 metres broad with intervening hollows and channels .
23 For golfers , wearing the dress of the day , — tailored tweed jackets and trousers , leather boots , and carrying well-made bags of up to 30 heavy-weight clubs ( according to former 1920's caddy Charles Robins ) — the prospects of coping with certain of Henley 's holes must have been daunting without a caddie .
24 Rhizobia , the nitrogen-fixing symbionts of leguminous plants , usually have a few , some of them huge ( up to 30 per cent of the size of the chromosome ) .
25 Since 1962 counts of up to 60 have been made in winter at Chichester gravel pits , and of up to 30 at Weir Wood Reservoir , with small numbers regular elsewhere .
26 The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy .
27 But a French report on the ‘ economic impact or the absence of standard in informatics ’ estimated that savings of up to 30 per cent could be made by standardising .
28 Electronic ballasts can save up to 30 per cent of the energy consumed by a conventional coil-core wire-wound ballast .
29 Adopting special sleep postures ( Figure 1 ) , they settle for a snooze in flocks of up to 30 birds .
30 That brings the officially acknowledged contribution of petrol-lead to blood-lead up to 30 per cent in adults and nearly 25 per cent in children and boosts the case against lead in petrol .
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