Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] to [num] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sequence of the human NF-l promoter in the region of -300 to -180 was compared to the homologous region in the mouse gene . |
| 2 | In Europe broods of three to six are the norm . |
| 3 | A slope of 4 to 1 was indeed mentioned in the original memorandum ( appendix A ) of Gordon Thomas , but there was nothing exclusive about such a ratio . |
| 4 | This was a post of some importance ; family connections apart , Deane 's colonel from the winter of 1647–8 to 1650 was Sir Arthur Hesilrige [ q.v. ] , one of the most influential politicians in the new Commonwealth . |
| 5 | This was probably an exceptional count , as not more than 50–60 have been noted there during estuary counts since 1967 , but gatherings of 60 to 100 are regular now in several places along the coast , for example Bognor pier , and 150 were recorded in the Rye area in the winter of 1972/3 . |
| 6 | The largest such flock in recent winters was of 145 in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes on 17 December 1960 , and gatherings of 40 to 70 are not infrequent . |
| 7 | A few centimetres below the surface the p H typically is 4–5 to 4–0 , but a p H of 3–5 to 3–0 is quite common . |
| 8 | And ratios of four to one were common as well as in China and other places erm , even in the middle ages in this country there is evidence that the sex ratio was quite seriously skewed er in favour of males and away from females . |
| 9 | Elsewhere gatherings of 20 to 40 are noted frequently in the Pagham/Selsey area , off Climping and between Worthing and Shoreham ; 100 were seen off Lancing on 26 January 1964 , and about 65 wintered off Worthing in 1971/72 . |
| 10 | Discussion of eighteenth-century wages — money or real — is helped by dividing the period at the beginning of the French wars in 1793 , for not only did 1792 represent an earnings peak for many workers , but the wage history of 1793 to 1815 is dramatically different from that of the preceding ninety years . |
| 11 | Flocks of 1,000 to 2,000 were recorded at least once in each month in the period , and are now appearing much more frequently . |
| 12 | Until 1975 , each examining board awarded its own grades , usually 1 to 9 , with 1 to 6 being passes . |
| 13 | As the incubation period can be anything from twenty-eight to thirty-six days , with twenty-nine to thirty-two being the norm , Barny must have worked out what was required of him pretty quickly . |
| 14 | Of greater significance than the numbers of schools established in 1850 to 1860 is the fact that some of them were founded for the express purpose of teaching deaf children through the Oral System . |
| 15 | She published a history of the UDC , Builders of Peace ( 1924 ) , and from 1925 to 1928 was editor of the UDC journal , Foreign Affairs , which she aimed to make a more popular and widely read journal . |
| 16 | The number of haemophilic patients dying due to infection with HIV for each year from 1980 to 1991 was 1 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 0 , 1 , 4 , 8 , 14 , 20 , 24 , and 35 . |
| 17 | A 1989 report for Unicef estimates that Mozambique 's total GDP losses from 1980 to 1988 were US$13.5 billion at 1988 prices . |
| 18 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 19 | All original records on anal cancers coded according to a modified version of the seventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD7 ) from 1943 to 1977 were examined manually to avoid inclusion of adenocarcinomas ( n=47 ) and melanomas ( n=19 ) . |
| 20 | Exports to western countries increased from US$ 6.1 billion to nearly US$7.3 billion ; the number of joint ventures from 1972 to 1989 was ( in round figures ) 1,000 , whereas in 1990 alone the number of new joint ventures reached 4,000 perhaps with the help of a revival of commercial law the ‘ tortuous and costly road of socialism which leads from capitalism to capitalism ’ is made smoother and swifter . |
| 21 | The apparent increase from 300 to 400 is 30% but what we actually need to measure is the increase in dots per square inch and this increases by 84% . |
| 22 | Figures on its use from 1985 to 1989 were announced by the Minister of Justice at a press conference on 16 January 1991 . |
| 23 | The situation was so bad in one company — it had started life as a joint venture with Lonrho — that the losses from 1985 to 1988 were substantially greater than its aggregate wage costs . |
| 24 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 25 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 26 | If the volume index is to be trusted , the average annual rate of real growth of Yugoslav exports from 1979 to 1987 was nearly 2.5 per cent , although almost all of this occurred between 1983 and 1985 , after which there was a slight decline . |
| 27 | On the expenditure side , the fall from 1979 to 1983 was an even greater 0.7 per cent ; but the recovery to 1987 brought the percentage budget surplus back in the latter year to almost the same insignificant level obtaining in 1979 . |
| 28 | The fall in this share from 1979 to 1983 was mainly the result of the nearly 10 per cent decline in that period in the personal incomes of government employees in comparison with incomes of employees in productive industries . |
| 29 | Labelled bFGF added in vitro to the suspension of sucralfate adjusted to pHs ranging from 7.0 to 2.0 was bound in gradually increasing amounts with decreasing pH . |
| 30 | The 5 years from 1784 to 1789 was Irvine Grammar School 's vintage period . |