Example sentences of "[num] [noun] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home Office figures published yesterday show that 49,200 people were accepted for settlement in the 12 months to the end of September . |
| 2 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 3 | A total of 5.1 million notifiable offences were recorded by the police in the 12 months to the end of September 1991 , the latest period for which firm figures are available . |
| 4 | He described the results for the 12 months to the end of March as ‘ the best we could have hoped for ’ . |
| 5 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |
| 6 | In the 12 months to the end of March last year , BET 's pre-tax profits slumped to £18.5 million , from £217 million the previous year . |
| 7 | Results for the 12 months to the end of December are expected shortly along with an announcement on the progress of loan renegotiations . |
| 8 | When I reviewed the GR-50 back in December ‘ 91 , I went into some detail regarding the fitting of the GK-2 pickup to the guitar of your choosing . |
| 9 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 10 | The treaty of Troyes made Henry V heir to the crown of France . |
| 11 | Since this time she has campaigned 30 dogs to the title of Champion , and she and her daughter Julia bred and owned the all-time top winning King Charles , Champion Curtana Morgana . |
| 12 | Access via a new railway underbridge some 300 metres to the west of the Bypass/Railway crossing with a new road provided to connect the estate roads with Westburn Avenue by following the line of the existing Baberton Mains Farm Access road and crossing over the Bypass by means of a new road bridge . |
| 13 | In the latest incident , on July 10 , six policemen , part of an allegedly drunken patrol , were arrested and charged with the murder of 17 passengers after shooting down a civilian aircraft , which they claimed to have mistaken for a drug smuggling plane , as it took off from Bellavista , 800 km to the north-west of the capital Lima . |
| 14 | To relax , said George , they 'd sometimes take the 113 bus to the end of the line at Shoreditch and then walk home . |
| 15 | The Reporter to the Public Inquiry is now preparing his Part 2 Report to the Secretary of State … his confidential recommendations on the Dry Store . |
| 16 | Some 30 kilometres to the north of Collias is the beautifully unspoiled medieval town of Uzes — try to stop off for at least an hour to explore its maze of cobbled streets . |
| 17 | The Ouvéa sailed from Whangarei on the morning of 9 July , 36 hours before the Rainbow Warrior was blown up , arriving in Norfolk Island 625 miles to the north on 13 July , thus providing Maniguet and his ‘ crew ’ with a seemingly perfect alibi . |
| 18 | On Jan. 18 the 21-country International Energy Agency ( IEA ) , consisting of the major industrialized countries , activated its war energy contingency plan and informed its members that they should make available 2,500,000 bpd to the market within 15 days . |
| 19 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 20 | The Russians 800 miles to the east of the Elbe scarcely threatened Otto I , but the Byzantines could be expected to react unfavourably to his imperial coronation , and Kiev was already in the orbit of Byzantine trade and political influence . |
| 21 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 22 | He has played a leading part in developing the Viet Nam business for the bast six years , chalking up 32 visits to the country before his permanent posting . |
| 23 | It seems to me equally , if not more , inappropriate that the court should have devoted six hours to the investigation of the application for the full order including oral evidence . |
| 24 | You were n't more than from the hall you were about six foot to the door to the master bedroom . |
| 25 | FIG. 3 In the experiments described here , observers sat in a modified Wheatstone stereoscope with mirrors at 45 deg to the line of sight and viewed the rear-projected images created on two translucent Mylar screens 57cm from the observer 's eyes . |
| 26 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 27 | KENNING Motor Group , a subsidiary of Ron Brierley 's quoted UK motor dealership , Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn , achieved a slim increase in pre-tax profit to £1.6million ( against £1.59million last year ) in the six months to the end of June , although turnover fell from £96.5million in 1988 to £88.7million . |
| 28 | WHITBREAD Investment Company , the offshoot of the eponymous brewing empire , increased its income 9 per cent to just over £7million in the six months to the end of September . |
| 29 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 30 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |