Example sentences of "an [noun] to an " in BNC.

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1 The initiative usually comes from the developer proposing an addition to an existing village , or from the local authority housing department wishing to construct a new council housing estate .
2 ‘ Could be anything from an Aborigine to an Atoguin .
3 Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP .
4 There will , as usual , be a right of appeal against an assessment to an industrial tribunal .
5 It may be helpful to use the structure of Psalm 95 in your quiet time as a pattern for half an hour to an hour or more of worship each day for a while .
6 Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’
7 It was perhaps half an hour to an hour later that the Sheikh 's Mercedes drew into the parking lot and a man got out .
8 Two a , a day as a single dose , strictly on an empty stomach so at least half an hour to an hour before food .
9 Say , an hour to an hour and a half ?
10 And I just spent three quarters of an hour to an hour with him and he said , Well I 've had a look at this erm , no thanks not for me .
11 Journey time varies between around half an hour to an hour and a quarter .
12 Well it should take us roughly erm an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes .
13 Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from where we are through the tunnel
14 Erm , we 're not too far removed from er Brands Hatch , about an hour 's run , three quarters of an hour to an hour 's run from we are through the tunnel
15 Once students have achieved Compact goals they have gained an entitlement to an offer of employment from a Compact employer .
16 state that there is an entitlement to an extension of time and reimbursement of monies ( as appropriate )
17 When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air .
18 Another common trait is for the model to pitch up as speed increases , making it difficult , if not impossible , to maintain a shallow dive as an entry to an aerobatic manoeuvre .
19 Design : a compact camera designed as an alternative to an SLR .
20 Section 245B provides that , as an alternative to an application to the court by the Secretary of State , such an application may be made ‘ by any person authorised by him for the purposes of this section . ’
21 This is an alternative to an action and no action can be maintained while there is distraint of the chattel .
22 If there is a hive-down of the target assets and business to a newly formed Target subsidiary of the vendor , followed by a sale of shares in the new target company , as an alternative to an assets sale , these " tax assets " can be preserved in Target .
23 The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script .
24 Carter was an outsider to an extent even greater than he was prepared to admit .
25 To change the picture ; presuppositions are not a booster rocket to get faith off the ground — to be jettisoned as soon as faith is in orbit — but are as vital to faith as an engine to an aeroplane .
26 The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason .
27 An agreement to refer an issue to an expert need not be in writing , but modern commercial practice will ensure that oral agreements for expert determination are most unlikely .
28 And this unelected government should not be making so many new and fundamental laws , for some of these will be an embarrassment to an elected government and it will take time and trouble to repeal them .
29 Was n't it the thing for newly made rock stars to pledge an allegiance to an old jazz hero , a John Coltrane , a Charlie Mingus or onwards into obscurity ?
30 In chapter 9.27 there may even be an allusion to an agreement between Antiochus and the Hellenizers ( " and he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week " ) .
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