Example sentences of "[num] [coord] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other successful events included a visit to AEA TECHNOLOGY at Risley on 10 April 1991 and a visit to MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT on 6 September . |
| 2 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 3 | There is no legal limit on the number of ministers but there is a limit on the number who can sit and vote in the Commons ( House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , s.2(1) ) , presently 95 and a limit to the number of ministerial salaries which can be paid ( Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ) . |
| 4 | In fact it 's Oxford 93 and a rehearsal to boot . |
| 5 | Like mercy , it is twice blessed , offering a welfare gain to A of 123 and a gain to B of . |
| 6 | There 'll be candidates ' rallies on May 10 and June 6 and a chance to ‘ vote ’ on June 20 . |
| 7 | The derivation is based on the interpretation of a bond as a composition of an annuity ( which provides the coupon stream ) and a zero-coupon bond ( which provides the principal repayment ) represented by ( using ( 5.29 ) with P d = B = 100 and d = rp T ) : where rp T is the par yield for a term to maturity of T years , where the discount factor D T is the fair price of a zero-coupon bond with par value of 1 and a term to maturity of T years , and where is the fair price of an annuity of 1 per year for T years ( with A o = 0 by convention ) . |
| 8 | Near Exeter , the old Exeter to Crediton road had been doubled in width ( from nine and a half to twenty feet ) and so made necessary a new bridge over the Creedy . |
| 9 | Between your two easy days , find a hill that takes from one and a half to two minutes to run . |
| 10 | Even in the rich world , childbirth is between one and a half to three times as dangerous as taking the pill and nearly 11 times as dangerous as being sterilised or using the IUD , whereas early , legal abortion carries a mortality rate similar to the pill . |
| 11 | They do a run of one and a half to two hours , then return for breakfast . |
| 12 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 13 | The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement . |
| 14 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 15 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 16 | Conrad and Brudermann had seriously misjudged Russian strength and intentions , for the combined armies of Ruzski ( Third ) and Brusilov ( Eighth ) , with 336 battalions , 264 squadrons and some 1,200 guns , outnumbered Brudermann by two and a half to one . |
| 17 | The overall differential is about two and a half to one . |
| 18 | In truth , you need around two and a half to three feet ( that 's up to a metre in Blue Peter-speak ) of front-to-back space to site the beast , which may seem a little profligate for a printer 's footprint , but is worth it , believe me . |