Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This useful and compact guide includes more than 1500 biographical entries on artists spanning the period 1900 to 1980 with some leeway on either side .
2 Dogs can manage up to 35,000 to 40,000 cycles per second , so that they are able to detect sounds that we can not .
3 Follicular and luteal phase oestradiol levels were highest in women aged 25–29 years , intermediate in women 30–34 , and lowest in women 35 or over ( figure ) , p=0.02 to 0.04 for follicular phase and 0.008 to 0.015 for luteal phase by repeated measures analysis of variance .
4 The same about forty to fifty on that field on that tree , they 'd come to that tree every night .
5 It prints at up to 480 by 480 dots per inch and will be shipping in the fourth quarter .
6 But they can look forward to 1993 with renewed optimism after conceding 81 goals in 50 senior matches during the past 12 months of instability and transition .
7 The 1992 budget was approved in the Knesset by 60 votes to 53 with one abstention on Jan. 2 , two days after a Dec. 31 deadline and a matter of hours before the government was to press for approval of a one-month provisional budget .
8 THE market hit a new peak yesterday , rising 18.3 to 2760.1 on continued hopes of economic recovery next year .
9 For example , we do not know whether we should attribute Stevenage 's low casualty rates ( 3.9 per 1,000 population in 1979 compared to 6.5 for British towns as a whole ) to its pedestrianised town centre , its extensive cycleway system or some other reason .
10 In his initial response to Bush 's proposals , outlined during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) on Jan. 29 , Russian President Boris Yeltsin offered to make " deep cuts in strategic offensive weapons … [ involving ] up to 2,000 to 2,500 warheads on each side " , but failed to specify which missiles would be eliminated .
11 Though not entirely met , ministers claimed a reduction from 50,000 to 2,000 in two-year waiters within one year .
12 On June 13 he received a standing ovation from the European Parliament in Strasbourg ; on the following day the Parliament voted by 177 votes to 47 with five abstentions in favour of a resolution to maintain sanctions [ see p. 37521 for June EC Foreign Ministers ' summit meeting in Dublin ; for February United Kingdom decision to lift some sanctions see p. 37234 ] .
13 Both were almost identical to hundreds of other houses in the surrounding areas .
14 Gerry will be playing to hundreds of loyal fans at the Apollo theatre in Oxford tonight .
15 The decision closes the floodgates to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers .
16 The decision closes the doors on to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers .
17 Replicas can be made of quite large surfaces , even up to hundreds of square centimetres in area , but the difficulty of producing good surfaces ( and satisfactory solvent distribution cross them ) increases rapidly with samples larger than about 0·5 m × 0·5 m .
18 In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board .
19 The CAD system gives touch-of-the-button access to hundreds of detailed plans of every major factory floor and office site in the Group .
20 Japanese invasions and wars put paid to hundreds of Chinese stations in the 1930s and 1940s .
21 The thermonuclear warhead has a yield of 150 to 200 kilotons , equating to 150000 to 200000 tonnes of TNT , compared with 20 kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb .
22 Quinn 's brace of neatly taken goals took his tally to six in four games since starting a month 's loan from Newcastle .
23 John Speight , of British Telecom , told the meeting at Didcot that designers aim to reduce dimensions to 0.1 to 0.2 micrometres in the next decade .
24 This remains the objective and , in fact , a lot of the getting into shape has already been done in that similar tonnages of both dry and coated stone were produced and sold in 1992 as compared to 1991 with significant reductions in staffing and investment .
25 Visibility had been forecast to be generally over ten kilometres , but falling to three to five kilometres in drizzle , with scattered stratocumulus cloud to the east of the area , base 2,000 feet , increasing to broken cover to the west with a base of 1,500–2,000 feet , with occasional scattered/broken stratus base 800–1,000 feet .
26 For the boys , Robert Chapman did well to win the bronze medal in the 1982 boys ' butterfly and Philip Traviss brought his bronze tally up to three with third place in the 1980 boys ' freestyle .
27 Duck numbers were down to 503 in eight species with tufted duck heading the list at 313 , twice the figure for last year 's May count , but there were only 46 shelduck whereas last year we found 121 .
28 Laurel Queen took her career score to 17 from 45 outings in the claimer , trainer Jack Berry shrugging : ‘ She is not bad in this sort of company , but is a bit moody and never the same two days in a row . ’
29 Rather than one or two men working at an isolated face , up to fifty men would be involved in winning coal by working at a face up to seventy to ninety metres in width .
30 Gall bladder emptying was restored to eight of 10 patients managed with an acutely inflamed gall bladder and to 11 of 13 patients with non-function because of a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch ( Table II ) .
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