Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This figure rose gradually to over 1,000,000 by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | He walked on the carpet at the outside of the treads and the noise dropped away to almost nothing . |
| 3 | Trailing to a Cliff Thompson goal at half time Herrington were soon back on level terms when Tom Welsh scored only to again go behind to a David Ross effort . |
| 4 | Her gaze shifted away to where the fire craved fuel , then turned back to him again . |
| 5 | Christine 's gaze travelled downwards to where the slabsided long-range executive transporter was being refitted and refuelled . |
| 6 | As the window began its descent , Jackson recovered enough to sharply call , ‘ Excuse me ! , |
| 7 | Union membership fell rapidly to around half of the immediate postwar level . |
| 8 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 9 | But last month , the annual rate of inflation fell dramatically to only 1.7 per cent , its lowest level since September 1967 . |
| 10 | All figures corresponded closely to well established figures for Europe and North America , except for potential congenital dislocation of the hip , which is unusually common in Hungary and probably in other central and eastern European countries . |
| 11 | Announcing the I N F Treaty , Mr Reagan looked forward to even greater agreements to come . |
| 12 | The niece went downstairs to where the ancient sewing-machine was kept . |
| 13 | Art treasures flowed steadily to Am Romerholz . |
| 14 | The Doctor moved across to where Bishop was still methodically accessing the gallery records . |
| 15 | It passed the 1000 mark in 1919 and the number climbed steadily to just over 2000 in 1923 , after which a rapid decline set in . |
| 16 | That summer a lot happened quickly to both Charlie and me : big things to him ; smaller but significant things to me . |
| 17 | In 1983–85 , donors gave around one million dollars annually ; in 1986 , the amount increased suddenly to around nine million dollars . |
| 18 | Gary Orr ( 73 ) and Gordon Brand , jun , who took 77 , were alongside Montgomerie , while Brian Marchbank did well to also join the qualifiers . |
| 19 | The HSE declares itself satisfied with the general health monitoring programmes run by the companies involved in building biotechnology factories but aside from the ICI programme New Scientist was unable to discover any others established especially to periodically review the health of workers involved in biotechnology processes . |
| 20 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 21 | In February , 1985 SO&sub2 ; levels in London jumped spectacularly to over 1,000 ug/m³ ; as the plume of a large power station crossed the city . |
| 22 | A signpost pointed ahead to where the road rejoined the Coastal Path . |
| 23 | Under her watchful eye the size of the Rentokil fleet grew substantially to almost 3000 vehicles . |
| 24 | On 20 February 1992 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote again to More Fisher Brown . |
| 25 | In what she acknowledged was a difficult year for the Scottish party , Mrs McGuire admitted the party had yet to fully come to terms with the election defeat last April . |