Example sentences of "[adv] [num] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The yen has stayed below 120 to the dollar in March after trading above 130 yen in March 1992 , a MOF official told a briefing after Japan 's February trade data was released .
2 so fifty to an hour would be
3 There are only three to the south porch .
4 So sixteen to the half
5 So sixteen to the fourth
6 So sixteen to the three quarters is find the fourth root and cube it or if you like cube sixteen and then find the fourth root .
7 So ten to the nought point nought three , is the hundredth root of Find the hundredth root of ten and then cube it .
8 So ten to the minus three o No one would dream of putting of using percent .
9 We had allocated three chapters to the teaching of language and only one to the teaching of literature .
10 Fearing that a weak German left flank might enable the French to invade the Fatherland ( which Schlieffen had been prepared temporarily to tolerate ) , Moltke allocated eight of his nine new divisions to the left flank and added only one to the right — precisely the reverse of what Schlieffen had intended .
11 Initially there were only two to a battalion , but as the weapon 's capabilities in defence and attack were realized , more and more were issued and soon whole units were armed with only these fast-firing automatic weapons .
12 The official exchange rate was fixed at US$1.00=NK60 as of Oct. 1 ( hitherto approximately 30 to the dollar ) ; on the unofficial parallel market , however , the currency was traded at 2,000 to the dollar .
13 The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service .
14 They often went on excursions , always talking away nineteen to the dozen .
15 They are open to athletes of all standards , with entrants divided into age categories from the under 30s to the over 60s and an open event for better athletes .
16 ‘ You said there were usually three to a cell , ’ Clinton observed .
17 Biologists believe that as this horn is pressed , hopefully by the proper host , spores are extruded , usually two to the customer .
18 About that time , Kitsons had been supplying 0-4-2s and 0-6-2s of similar dimensions , to the Mid Wales Railway , later Cambrian Railways , and also 0-6-0s to the Great Northern , Midland and Rhymney Railways .
19 Right ten to the minus three .
20 Five years ago it was announced in a communique issued from Agriculture House that tomatoes which are smallish , about 7 to the pound , round , red all over , and firm are the best and command the highest prices .
21 History of Art 1 covers Western art , particularly painting and sculpture , from c. 1500 to the present day .
22 In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds .
23 If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ?
24 From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers .
25 Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume .
26 Now sometimes they might give it you as sixteen to the three quarters and you can sort of read that off , What am I doing here ?
27 What would So we know what sixteen to the one quarter means , what about sixteen to the three quarters .
28 What about ten to the three quarters ?
29 Well , of course , again if you want to see what a neutron or a proton is made of , I mean a neutron is a very small thing and a proton is a very small thing — it 's about ten to the minus thirteen centimetres across .
30 I mean if you think that an atom is , as we said , typically ten to the minus eight of a centimetre , then a nucleus is typically ten to the minus twelve of a centimetre , so that 's four orders of magnitude down , so the nucleus itself , if you scaled the whole thing down by a factor of ten to the four , the neucleus itself again is made up of a fair amount of free space and loss of particles inside it .
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