Example sentences of "of [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 2 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 3 | Was told to contact Notts County Council concerning the state of Hill including the entrance to Hill Farm er where water runs off the road into the farmyard instead of down to the gully . |
| 4 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 5 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |
| 6 | Railcard holders will be able to get further reductions of up to a third : children pay a flat fare of £1 single . |
| 7 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 8 | These problems point very clearly to the need for training , and many library systems would benefit from the introduction of regular training courses ( of up to a week in duration ) on book provision . |
| 9 | As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus . |
| 10 | It will cost you two stamps , and I 'm afraid , a wait of up to a month , as our volunteers deal with the huge response we get . |
| 11 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 12 | Gilts suffered too , with price drops of up to a point . |
| 13 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 14 | A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen . |
| 15 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 16 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 17 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 18 | Its report this week says serious delays of up to a year in awarding benefit to some disabled people was ‘ tantamount to maladministration ’ . |
| 19 | While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment . |
| 20 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 21 | The builder 's surveyor will either check the information supplied by the sub-contractor or measure the work carried out during the payment period , usually weekly , but occasionally for longer periods of up to a month . |
| 22 | Given that the CJA 1982 gave magistrates the powers of Youth Custody sentences of up to a year , and that these sentences increased by 67 per cent in the first year of its operation , it is hardly surprising that Taylor ( 1982 ) found that 43 per cent of black youth defendants opted for crown court trials . |
| 23 | All dried peas have a shell life of up to a year — any longer and they may well need extra cooking , or possibly not soften at all . |
| 24 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 25 | Conference Room 1 is very useful for larger meetings , but there is scope for the use of a smaller room for groups of up to a dozen staff and/or external users . |
| 26 | Workers would be given shares of up to a quarter of the total in their enterprise . |
| 27 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft are quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 28 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft is quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 29 | Between 1969 and 1973 it was to cost approximately £100 million , and involve a design team of up to a hundred people known as the New Range Planning Organisation ( NPRO ) . |
| 30 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |