Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [n mass] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain . |
| 2 | You can buy phosphate test kits , but you 'll need one that measures down to 0.1ppm or below . |
| 3 | He demonstrated that pervasive ( or non-seam ) solution compaction may result in considerable reductions in thickness ( commonly up to 50% and more , rarely as much as 80% ) of finely crystalline carbonate units . |
| 4 | A pair of tusks is valued at up to $2,000 and often exchanged for drugs . |
| 5 | Exxon also agreed to make a further payment of up to $100,000,000 if further damage from the oil slick was discovered in the five years after this period ( 2002-2006 ) . |
| 6 | The unions involved , the Civil and Public Servants Association and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants , claim that the in-house bids involve jobs losses of up to 50pc as well . |
| 7 | These fees included a charge of at least £2,500 which increased on a scale related to the length of the proposed railway , to anything up to £75,000 and also included the cost for holding any public inquiry that was deemed necessary . |
| 8 | Fionn Loch , the ‘ white loch ’ holds some fantastic wild brown trout , fish of up to 4lb and more in weight ; and deeper down , ferox , caught by the old Scottish fishing method , trolling . |
| 9 | A witness in the family proceedings court who refuses to give evidence or produce any document once he gets to court may be committed to prison for a term not exceeding one month or fined up to £1,000 or both ( MCA , s97(4) ) . |
| 10 | When you take out your Plan , you decide how much you want to contribute — from as little as £10 a month up to £100 or more . |
| 11 | Long-tongued species are particularly well-represented in Madagascar , and about 10% of all the orchids in that island , i.e. some 70 species , have nectar-spurs , up to 8cm or longer . |
| 12 | The enzyme deficiency varies from absence of detectable activity to a residual activity of up to 25% or more . |
| 13 | Businessure is aimed at businesses with a turnover of up to £1m and generally involving premiums of up to £5,000 per annum . |
| 14 | They can operate at temperatures up to 1,000°C and very high pressures ; and they may be in constant use for 10 years . |
| 15 | Although more resilient , and easier to handle as well as coming in a far higher range of breaking strains ( up to 200kg or over 400 1 b ) , braid is still vulnerable to kinks and twists . |
| 16 | Big , old-established unions may lend up to £5,000 or even more ( the legal maximum is £10,000 ) , but smaller unions may have a limit of a few hundred , and a new member may only get £100 . |
| 17 | Because lianes often tie together several trees , felling of one tree may lead to considerable damage to others , while logging tracks ( Figure 9.2 ) may take up to 10% or even 30% of the forest area . |
| 18 | they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time . |
| 19 | The conventional guess , based on the ups and downs of the business cycle , says that Japan 's GNP will grow by 3–4% in 1991 , then bounce back to 5% or so for years thereafter . |
| 20 | He then went back to headquarters and together with some colleagues went and collected Mxenge 's car from the parking lot . |