Example sentences of "to [adv] [n mass] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , on the contrary , likely to have been appreciably higher — say 30° to perhaps 50° or more during periods of significant crustal extension such as the Permian , and at times during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous . |
| 2 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 3 | There are two important cut-off points ; at a rate of above 10 ventricular ectopic beats per hour the mortality increases steeply to above 20% and plateaus out at a rate of 30 per hour associated with a 1-year mortality of 30% . |
| 4 | After use , let the oven cool down to approximately 60°C and then spray an approved oven cleaner around the inside of the chamber , the oven rack , grid shelves and used gastronorm containers . |
| 5 | Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc . |
| 6 | Colonic and faecal water were prepared by reconstituting freeze dried samples with double distilled water to respectively 20% and 35% dry weight , to mimic the conditions in the proximal and distal colon . |
| 7 | So Glaxo shares are down from £8 to under £6 and Wellcome down from £10 to £7.50 . |
| 8 | Car phones lost popularity when portable handsets plummeted from will into four figures to under £300 and became available with in-car adapters . |
| 9 | Interest charges fell from £2.5 million to under £500,0000 and gearing has been held at 29 per cent . |
| 10 | Cathy Gunn 's Medeva jumped £1 to nearly £3 but sagged at the close . |
| 11 | Again and again in the letters and diaries of the period there are references to both partridge and elephant fights ; they also feature prominently in the miniature illustrations of late Mughal manuscripts . |
| 12 | An advantage of the modular form is the flexibility it gives to both staff and student in organising a suitable degree course . |
| 13 | The cause was microcystis , a type of blue-green alga which produces microcystin , a toxin to both people and animals . |
| 14 | Fascinating stuff this , extremely light and porous , and offering homes to both fish and inverts , with its various caves and grottoes . |
| 15 | Concrete contains a considerable amount of free lime which is harmful in varying degrees to both fish and plants . |
| 16 | So , if you drank a whole bottle of wine , blood alcohol would rise to about 150ml/100ml or 70mg above the legal limit and it will take nearly 5 hours ( 70 ÷ 15 ) to fall to that limit . |
| 17 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |
| 18 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 19 | As a result of these two trends , the importance of house ownership in overall wealth holding has grown to almost 50% and a growing number of individuals are inheriting valuable house property . |
| 20 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has now sold a block of 5.6% of its ordinary shares to Digital Equipment Corp , bringing DEC 's holding in Olivetti to almost 10% and fulfilling the agreement concluded last year , which gives the Italian privileged access to DEC 's Alpha RISC . |
| 21 | Former Arrowe Park assistant Mark Roe completed his most successful season on the Volvo European Tour when joint 18th place in last weekend 's Volvo Masters in Spain took his winnings to almost £210,000 and 18th place in the final Order of Merit . |
| 22 | This reserve was cut to around 12% and the result was that the Stirling was able to operate at 18,500′ plus , which was a much better height than the bare 12,500′ we struggled to in the early days of PFF . |
| 23 | The problem has been the cost and complexity of point-of-sale systems that can run to around £3,000 or £4,000 he says . |
| 24 | They identify five main leadership styles to be plotted on the matrix , depending upon the various commitments to either people or the task . |