Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] of [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Derek Mason ( Con ) added : ‘ This is depriving 2,000 people of access to Darlington . |
| 2 | Coun Derek Mason ( Con ) said : ‘ This is depriving 2,000 people of access to Darlington . |
| 3 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 4 | While the limited time-series of PIMS to date seems to indicate some broad credibility for the implications of portfolio grids , other criticisms of the approach challenge its underlying assumptions on a conceptual basis . |
| 5 | France had returned 2,246 kg of gold to Lithuania on Oct. 4 , 1991 [ see also p. 38465 ] . |
| 6 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 7 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 8 | A depth scale can be devised by directing diagonals of a receding series of squares to VPd ( vanishing point for diagonals ) . |
| 9 | The WEntry table is the prime means of access to entry text . |
| 10 | An internationally prominent art historian and archaeologist , he donated 1,500 works of art to Vukovar , his native town . |
| 11 | The long series of delays to CD-I 's launch has undoubtedly sapped the confidence of potential publishing investors . |
| 12 | It comes after a national survey revealed one in four 15 year olds smokes regularly and that sales of cigarettes to children are estimated to be worth around £70m a year . |
| 13 | The government in early 1990 donated 4,000 kg of coffee to West Germany for distribution among refugees from East Germany . |
| 14 | To facilitate these demands , as well as to preserve the files of historical documents currently being transformed into machine-readable form for the use of future generations , an Historical Data Unit has been established as part of the Data Archive at the University of Essex to collect , store and disseminate machine-readable data of interest to historians ( Anderson 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Some MPs expect Mr Lamont to widen the 20p income tax band introduced last year from the first £2,000 of earnings to £3,000 . |