Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derma Shield is a non-toxic , non-greasy , aerosol mousse which , when applied to any part of the skin , provides an invisible barrier against most skin irritants for up to four hours . |
| 2 | TOP mountain bike riders from all over the country battled it out in North Yorkshire at the weekend . |
| 3 | The combination of these methods provides optimum cooking quality and shorter cooking times of up to five times less than conventional methods . |
| 4 | Features to look out for on a commercial microwave oven include a turbo-grill , a convection oven and microwave functions that can reduce cooking times by up to 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Five quayside cranes of up to 10 tonne capacity serve the berth . |
| 6 | Milk yields of up to 35kg a day in June were common , with an average of 25kg a day over the summer months , but the milk was not very creamy . |
| 7 | The European Monetary Co-operation Fund provides support funds for up to three months . |
| 8 | Sixty nuclear opposition groups from all over the country supported the Union of Concerned Scientists when it presented evidence at official hearings about weaknesses in the emergency cooling systems designed to stop a reactor overheating . |
| 9 | TI says that is figures tend to reflect the trend in failures of more established companies , with historical evidence suggesting that the series often leads other available insolvency indicators by up to six months . |
| 10 | The new carriers are being offered a slimmed down , mainframe fat-free version : between 10 and 20 SPARC 10 Sybase database servers ( with up to 18Gb per server ) replacing the mainframe , a set of batch servers with up to 4Gb of flat file space per server and a range of on-line application server Sun workstations running Sybase Open Client . |
| 11 | The new carriers are being offered a slimmed down , mainframe fat-free version : between 10 and 20 Sparcstation 10 Sybase database servers with up to 18Gb per server ) replacing the mainframe , a set of batch servers with up to 4Gb of flat file space per server and range of on-line application server Sun workstations running Sybase Open Client . |
| 12 | The Decision 386/40 kit , based on MD 's 40Mhz 386DXL and available with either a 5.25 or 3.5 floppy , is designed for application developers and small business workgroup environments of up to 16 users . |
| 13 | The treaty outlined a complex system of quotas and agreed technology ( including cameras , video cameras , infra-red scanning equipment and all-weather radar ) to allow signatory countries to overfly at 72 hours ' notice other countries for military reconnaissance purposes . |
| 14 | Delorean car enthusiasts from all over the world are set to converge on the province on Thursday for their annual reunion . |
| 15 | Elsewhere along the coast flocks of up to 500 are regularly found . |
| 16 | The device will also implement Apple Computer Inc 's QuickRing bus protocol for data transfers of up to 200Mbps between NuBus boards . |
| 17 | Indeed , there is a time lag in the uptake of many research ideas of up to at least a decade in some instances ( 18 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Car passengers from all over the country arriving at Holyhead want a relaxed journey to Dublin . |
| 19 | ‘ Car passengers from all over the country arriving at Holyhead want a relaxed journey to Dublin . |
| 20 | There are a number of commercial systems currently available on the market which recognise handprint , some of which are quite successful for careful writing within specified boxes ( quoted recognition rates of up to 95% ) , and very successful if the system has been trained in a writer-dependent mode . |
| 21 | stopped at the tea rooms after completely over the top ordering . |
| 22 | Here the cut slopes towards instead of away from the bud . |
| 23 | The aim of the traffic engineers was to cut car journeys by up to 10 per cent , creating congestion-free running for buses , goods vehicles and the remaining cars . |
| 24 | ROVER is slashing car prices by up to £1,000 in a bid to kick-start stalled sales . |
| 25 | Pocket sprung mattresses can cope with weight differences of up to four stone , but if you and your partner 's weight differs by more than four and a half stone ( 30kg ) your best bet is a pair of ‘ zip-and-link ’ mattresses . |
| 26 | President Howard Smith maintains the problem has been one of long sales cycles by large accounts considering bulk purchases of up to two or three thousand units rather than the impulse buying originally anticipated by Clarity 's business plan . |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard Co has extended its HP 9000 Series 1200 line of fault-tolerant Unix systems sourced from Sequoia Systems Inc downwards with the launch of the entry-level HP 9000 Model 1210 , claiming that it substantially outperforms fault-tolerant offerings from Tandem Computers Inc , Stratus Computer Inc and Digital Equipment Corp by as much as 100% in transaction processing work . |
| 28 | Switch to unleaded petrol , which reduces dioxins from exhaust fumes by up to 80% . |
| 29 | Around 250–300 honours and research students from all over Scotland attended the 14th annual Irvine review lectures held in the Chemistry Department at St Andrews University in November . |
| 30 | He had also been a division president and group vice-president of Aydin Corporation , a computer systems and controls organization and a founder and executive vice-president of Delta Data Systems for close to ten years . |