Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] to [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orbits could be further refined by adding epicycles to epicycles etc. in such a way that the resulting system was compatible with observations of planetary positions and capable of predicting future planetary positions . |
| 2 | What is equally disturbing is the number of tobacconists selling cigarettes to children under 16 . |
| 3 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 4 | In 1979 , they were hiring less people , giving jobs to men rather than women . |
| 5 | This further sharp decline in profitability , following on that of earlier years , and taking profits to levels well below those which had come to be expected during the boom , is the key to the sustained sluggishness of accumulation in the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s . |