Example sentences of "[num] and to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not review the Rhodesian episode without regret , though it was a fascinating adventure with a disappointing , indeed from some points of view tragic , conclusion ; but it was the forerunner of the later ( Lancaster House ) agreement in 1979 and to that extent had some beneficial consequences , and it was , of course , useful as a background to new negotiations . |
| 2 | The third most momentous event in papal history , which would have meant much to Innocent III and to all visitors to the Lateran , was the great struggle for dominion between the pope and the emperor , known as the Investiture Contest . |
| 3 | The Oct. 25 agreement involved raising the notional rate used for the calculation of pensions , from 1,000 dinars to 1,800 dinars by Jan. 1 , 1991 and to 2,000 dinars by July 1 , 1991 . |
| 4 | Tariffs on imported cars would drop from 85 per cent to 60 per cent in 1991 and to 35 per cent by 1994 . |
| 5 | whether it 's nineteen ninety , ninety five which is relatively small , it widens to a potential sixteen point five million , fourteen point five million minimum , in ninety five , ninety six and to twenty seven point two million in ninety six , ninety seven . |
| 6 | and er analogist principal applies in relation to article eighty six and to this article the effect upon trade must flow from the abuse , however , the definition of the market arises in relation to establishing dominants , there are many cases which established , the market in which an undertaking is dominant need not be the same market as where the abuse occurred accordingly to establish an article of eighty six case , dominants may be proven in a market where there is no effect upon trade . |
| 7 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 8 | The minister also said that the government expected to double the size of the electorate by extending the franchise to women over 21 and to naturalized citizens who had previously been denied the vote . |
| 9 | Sweden raises its marginal intervention rate to 500 per cent ( although this is brought down to 50 per cent on Sept. 21 and to 40 per cent on Sept. 28 ) . |
| 10 | The number of people more than six months in arrears with their mortgage payments rose from 8,420 in 1979 to 41,900 in 1984 and to 45,840 at the beginning of 1988 . |
| 11 | ‘ Greater London ’ , as those parts that lay beyond the ring of the old county boundary became known , grew from about 414,000 inhabitants in 1861 to 1,405,000 in 1831 and to 2,045,000 at the turn of the century . |
| 12 | In fact , in Great Britain demolitions fell from 63,000 in 1975/76 to 35,000 in 1980/81 and to 12,000 in 1984/85 . |
| 13 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
| 14 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 15 | In the economic forecasts issued together with the budget the government predicted a rise in unemployment to 3.8 per cent in 1992 and to 4.5 per cent in 1993 ( the highest levels since 1945 ) , and a fall in gross domestic product by 0.2 per cent in 1992 ( after a fall of 1.3 per cent in 1991 ) to be followed by a rise of 1.9 per cent in 1993 . |
| 16 | Fatal accidents involving motor vehicles rose from 373 in 1909 to 1,154 in 1913 and to 2,010 in 1920 ; in 1926 road deaths rose to 4,886 and to 7,300 in 1934 — a figure that would not be reached again until the early 1960s . |
| 17 | The Swedish Rijksbank raised its marginal intervention rate for lending to the banking system from 16 to 24 per cent on Sept. 8 and to 75 per cent the following day , when it also arranged a currency loan of ECU16,000 million to support the krona . |
| 18 | Fatal accidents involving motor vehicles rose from 373 in 1909 to 1,154 in 1913 and to 2,010 in 1920 ; in 1926 road deaths rose to 4,886 and to 7,300 in 1934 — a figure that would not be reached again until the early 1960s . |
| 19 | A blunt letter last week told all clubs without floodlights that unless they were up and shining by 1993–94 and to 120 lux , a higher standard than many existing installations they 'd be banned from the FA Cup . |
| 20 | In 1843 the total population was 117,372 but this had declined to 107,088 by 1854 and to 98,620 in 1858 . |
| 21 | This system was extended to Normandy in 1350 and to other English-occupied parts of France after the victory at Poitiers in 1356 . |
| 22 | The Swiss National Bank 's discount rate was lowered from 7 to 6.5 per cent on Sept. 14 and to 6 per cent on Sept. 25 . |
| 23 | It profited handsomely from the division of the non-Conservative vote between Labour and Alliance , and from the exaggerating effects of the British electoral system ; compared to 1979 , a decline of 1.5 per cent in share of the vote had produced a trebling of the government 's overall majority in seats from 44 to 144 in 1983 and to 100 in 1987 . |
| 24 | The number of Korean language publication permits granted rose from 409 in 1920 to 1,466 in 1926 , to 2,383 in 1937 and to 2,749 in 1939 . |
| 25 | Joseph Chamberlain 's earlier recognition that working people could and should be seduced away from independent political action by state welfare measures was taken up by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill , as the need became more urgent due to the Labour success in the election of 1906 and to industrial militancy after 1909 . |
| 26 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 27 | As a proportion of total population , this represents a decrease from 65.2 per cent in 1801 to just under one-half in 1851 and to 17.6 per cent in 1939 . |
| 28 | In Wellingborough the number of male boot and shoe makers rose from 613 in 1841 to 814 in 1851 and to 861 in 1861 ; female numbers rose from a mere 37 in 1841 to 473 in 1851 and to 744 a decade later . |
| 29 | Government targets already agreed with the IMF included reducing the fiscal deficit from 6.1 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 ; reducing inflation from 89.3 per cent to 37.7 per cent in 1990 and to 30 per cent in 1991 ; and achieving growth of 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) during 1990 . |
| 30 | Renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 [ see pp. 37260-61 ] , the party 's membership fell from 2,300,000 in early 1989 to 1,400,000 by January 1990 and to 350,500 by June 1990 . |