Example sentences of "[adv] to [n mass] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to bring inflation down to 4% a year from its current 12% , and to create 1m jobs in the next two years . |
| 2 | Prices steadied and ended the day largely unchanged after November traded down to £677 a tonne , the lowest for 14 years . |
| 3 | To be fair , there are some sharpish lines , such as Frye 's indignant response to being told to keep his expenses down to £300 a week : ‘ But I spill £300 a week . ’ |
| 4 | So , after much jockeying and a few power lunches ( although all three contestants for the top spot — McDonald , Stewart , and Somerville — deny this ) Trevor has got the top job and a salary reckoned close to £125,000 a year . |
| 5 | Under the EC strategy , an energy tax would rise gradually to $10 a barrel by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 7 | The price for the main North Sea Brent blend of crude oil firmed slightly to $17.81 a barrel as traders awaited signs that the cartel would implement proposals for a cut of one million barrels per day ( bpd ) to set its production ceiling at about 23.6 million bpd from 1 March . |
| 8 | From 16 centres , 268 patients were treated under double-blind conditions for six weeks with either clozapine ( up to 900mg a day ) or chlorpromazine ( up to 1800mg a day ) . |
| 9 | The forgeries are understood to be changing hands at up to £60 a time across the province in pubs and clubs . |
| 10 | A crippling recruitment and retention crisis has seen BR lose vital engineering staff to better paid jobs for example in British Telecom and Mercury , where senior technicians ' rates are up to £60 a week more . |
| 11 | The telephone line contains a ten-minute message from Reggie , 59 , and callers are charged at up to 48p a minute to listen . |
| 12 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 13 | But Ms Maeve Sherlock , NUS president , said students could lose far more in welfare benefits than they would be able to borrow — around £523 per term for every claimant in London and up to £900 a term for mature students in the capital . |
| 14 | And it costs up to $8,000 every month . ’ |
| 15 | For example , a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week . |
| 16 | British Glass Recycling ( BGR ) , which has a 75 per cent share of the reclaimed glass market , is threatening to cut the price it pays for cullet by up to £10 a tonne . |
| 17 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 18 | Child benefit goes up to £10 a week for the first child and Pounds 8.10 for each subsequent child . |
| 19 | HARD-UP German airline Lufthansa is selling leather first-class passenger seats from its planes at up to £3,500 a pair . |
| 20 | You will see that up to max.flash the image will look much the same as using the techniques described for pre-flash , establishing more mid and highlight tones . |
| 21 | Whether Americans have more money than sense or are just plain lazy is hard to tell , but they pay A-1 and others like them up to $1,000 a time to take their automobiles from A to B. |
| 22 | Like pot-bellied Vietnamese pigs , the goats are fast becoming trendy pets , changing hands at up to $1,000 a time and catered for by groups like the International Fainting Goat Association ( newsletter : Fall in Love With Fainters ) and the Tennessee Fainting Goat Association . |
| 23 | Even if he worked a 40hour week , his £3-an-hour wages would only add up to £6,240 a year . |
| 24 | So , on top of his wages , he 's worth up to £12,000 a year extra . |
| 25 | They 're cutting through the rock at a rate of up to 40ft an hour and the drill has reached 1,200ft down . |
| 26 | For backing superstar acts such as Sting and Dire Straits , musicians can command up to £7,000 a week . |
| 27 | Reporting his progress by radio , Smith said : ‘ Up to 25,000ft the going is good , but above that the ropes left by previous expeditions have been swept away . |
| 28 | Cash withdrawals of up to £250 a day |
| 29 | Cash withdrawals of up to £250 a day |
| 30 | Payments of up to £100,000 a year are already made to 30 farmers to preserve their land as rough pasture or hay meadow as opposed to farming intensively . |