Example sentences of "[adv prt] to twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cut down to twenty a day . ’ |
| 2 | So that would reduce it down to twenty . |
| 3 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 4 | But it 's gone down to twenty eight |
| 5 | But if you widen the pavements and you differentiate the pavements from the roadway , and you use continental traffic calming measures which are not great big humps but which are perhaps little stretches of cobbles and things like that , then you should be able to bring the speed down to twenty miles an hour . |
| 6 | Ordinary subsidies : every missionary bishop gets , without fail each year , an ordinary subsidy of up to twenty thousand pounds for the ordinary day-to-day running of the diocese . |
| 7 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 8 | Required to reduce their academic staff by anything up to twenty per cent , they responded by persuading as many people as possible to take early retirement and freezing all vacancies . |
| 9 | Alexander Technique : requiring anything up to twenty sessions with a trained teacher , this technique ( named after its originator F. M. Alexander ) concentrates on the correct alignment of the body which , in turn , leads to the elimination of physical and mental stresses . |
| 10 | So while the male bi-coloured damselfish attracts his mates by chirping — the sound increasing to a crescendo if a female happens to pass by — there is a species of minnow which purrs , the cod grunts and the love song of the male haddock resembles the sound of a motorbike , a quite unmelodious call which it can sustain for periods of up to twenty minutes . |
| 11 | Good internal doors , which should be kept closed as much as possible , can halt a fire by up to twenty minutes , allowing you time to escape . |
| 12 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 13 | The person chosen to start the game counts up to twenty and has a light ball . |
| 14 | Up to twenty vanished basic phyla of soft-bodied creatures have been identified from the fossil record of 520 million years ago — all utterly different from anything known today . |
| 15 | Faced with a rack of up to twenty different spools in the kite shop , you must first consider the three main parameters which govern the suitability of the line . |
| 16 | The president and councillors were supposed to encourage an amicable settlement , but if they failed the president could convict wrongdoers and fine them up to twenty rupees . |
| 17 | Proctors had to give up to twenty to fifty per cent of their fees for custom received through petition-drawers . |
| 18 | The chicks are not likely to drown as they can conceal themselves underwater for up to twenty minutes . |
| 19 | About half an hour before this was due to start you could meet up to twenty orangs swinging through the trees where they had spent the day in order to get their free meal . |
| 20 | With two Flights , SMR operated up to twenty Lancasters at one point . |
| 21 | In the past , typically , businesses have remained cash-negative for up to twenty years . |
| 22 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |
| 23 | The neighbourhood associations were larger — up to twenty families , with associations organized in turn into larger village or block associations . |
| 24 | From daytime feeding grounds up to twenty miles away , they converge on Abbey Park to roost for the night . |
| 25 | The increased numbers of people were housed by splitting up existing houses so that even modest cottages had sometimes up to twenty people living in them . |
| 26 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 27 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |
| 28 | That does n't add up to twenty nine , does it ? |
| 29 | It does n't add up to twenty nine . |
| 30 | Now what 's going to happen along the right hand axis we go up to twenty and so we can go along there in twos and it 'll just fit on . |