Example sentences of "[num] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 2 | After all … 2.000.000.000,00 when you think about it , is … 0,00 compared to the budget for the whole production , which will probably run out about 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 3 | However , there is evidence of a slight increase in teenage pregnancy rate in 1981 in England and Wales for all ages between fourteen and nineteen compared to the previous year , with a consequent rise in the numbers of girls who had babies and who had abortions . |
| 4 | The vast majority of heroin users were daily users of the drug at the time of contact with these agencies : 208 out of 215 known to the Drugs Council , 166 out of 171 known to GPs , and all 242 known to the Detoxification Unit . |
| 5 | Alassane Ouattara , the author of the country 's current economic recovery plan , was on Nov. 7 appointed to the newly created post of Prime Minister [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 6 | The U.S.P.G.A. reconsidered the decision and announced that Louis ' entry would be approved as one of the 10 allowed to the local sponsors for invited amateurs . |
| 7 | Dr Hazel will be known to some staff : he worked for the Edinburgh City Engineer 's Department and in 1975 transferred to the Regional Council , working in the Transportation and Highway Planning Division . |
| 8 | All three dated to the third century , and were tentatively identified as shrines , as was the second phase of a nearby rectangular structure . |
| 9 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 10 | In recent weeks the single Class 158 allotted to the Cambrian has been stabled at Machynlleth . |
| 11 | To address this issue , we expressed in bacteria a GST fusion protein consisting of Jun residues 1-193 attached to the DNA binding domain of yeast GAL4 . |
| 12 | Altogether clubs raked in more than £133 million in gate receipts from domestic games during 199192 compared to the previous year 's £114m . |
| 13 | What 's even two thousand compared to the unimaginable numbers who might perish if that device does detonate sooner or later — almost certainly sooner — if we do n't do something about it ? ’ |
| 14 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 15 | Despite a faster rate of accumulation in relation to the labour force ( reflected in the capital-labour ratio growing 1 per cent per year faster ) , the growth of productivity was around 1 per cent slower in the early 1970s compared to the early 1960s ( figure 11.4 ) . |
| 16 | With all the sense of timing learnt as champion jockey , he creates situation after situation of rising suspense to hold readers by the hundred thousand glued to the battle of wits between hero and villains that he has devised . |
| 17 | Rat-1 cells expressing either wild-type c-Myc-ER or the defective c-Myc mutant 106–143 fused to the human oestrogen receptor , and either with or without Bcl-2 , were growth-arrested by culture in 0.05% fetal calf serum ( FCS ) for 48h . |
| 18 | As mentioned in paragraph twenty three of my proof , an appeal decision relating to land immediately east of D thirty nine referred to the unsuitability for development of that area , Since the character of the village would be seriously harmed . |
| 19 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |
| 20 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 21 | The company 's account was , accordingly , in April 1987 transferred to the Woolwich branch so as to continue to be supervised by Mr. Tucker . |
| 22 | The vast majority of heroin users were daily users of the drug at the time of contact with these agencies : 208 out of 215 known to the Drugs Council , 166 out of 171 known to GPs , and all 242 known to the Detoxification Unit . |
| 23 | The national curriculum began to be taught in the autumn of 1989 , with pupils in the first year of Key Stage 1 introduced to the programmes of study and attainment targets of the three core subjects of mathematics , English and science . |
| 24 | Like Azikwe , Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln University , Pennsylvania , founded in 1854 as a college for Blacks , which introduced a theological faculty in 1869 affiliated to the presbyterian church . |
| 25 | So if under our present system 25,000 votes go to Alphonse and 15,000 to Belinda and 10,000 to Cuthbert , the votes wasted are the 25,000 given to the two defeated candidates plus 9,999 of the votes given to Alphonse who needed only 15,001 to defeat Belinda , his closest competitor . |
| 26 | There are twenty possible kinds of amino acid , so the number of different proteins a hundred amino acids long is twenty raised to the power of a hundred . |
| 27 | As well as its contribution to study skills , the science curriculum for years 3–5 contributed to the Challenge of Change theme in the form of biological surveys ( e.g. comparisons of a field over passing years , investigations of pollution at the town tip , and classifications of flora and fauna in a local creek ) . |
| 28 | Among the main tropical diseases leishmaniasis was among the fastest-spreading parasite-inflicted infection , in 1990 , affecting 12,000,000 people in 80 countries ; there were 200 million people suffering from bilharzia and over 2,000 million exposed to the risk of malaria . |
| 29 | Components for the right channel have one hundred added to the component numbering , i.e. and so on . |
| 30 | Probably ninety-nine people out of a hundred come to The Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales only after reading The Lord of the Rings . |