Example sentences of "to [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What that clearly involves ( Table I.5 ) is first , a relatively stable total proportion over statutory retirement-pension age , but second , a substantial increase in the number and proportion of that retirement-age population which is over 85 , and a decrease in the number and proportion of 65 to 74 year-olds who are now often described as ‘ the young elderly ’ . |
| 2 | Demonstrators were angered by a government announcement in February that King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV had agreed to amend the law , thereby giving Tongan citizenship to 426 foreigners who had bought Tongan passports . |
| 3 | The entry fee is only £6 per team and entry is restricted to 32 teams who will then be split into eight groups of four in the round robin stages . |
| 4 | Thomas and Kassab recently reported on the substantial benefits of fluoridation for the dental health of women aged up to 32 years who had lived continuously on Anglesey and who were attending St David 's Maternity Hospital between July 1986 and July 1987 for their confinement . |
| 5 | It 's a measure of the esteem in which Altman is held that many of the close to 70 stars who appear were willing to commit themselves to a project which so ruthlessly satirizes their very existence . |
| 6 | The SSD had hoped to persuade the SSI to send a circular letter to all directors listing the 20 to 30 people who worked in children 's homes between 1976 and 1989 when Beck abused children ( news , 18 March ) . |
| 7 | The occasion was a joint one , the presentation of ‘ wings ’ to 12 flyers who have just qualified , in the presence of five surviving Second World War pilots . |
| 8 | There are 80 to 100 members who I believe will support the group after the election . |
| 9 | Indeed Samuel et al reported that when HBIG was administered on a regular basis in the first two years after liver transplantation to 100 patients who had been serum HBsAg positive , HBsAg reappeared in 22.7% only . |
| 10 | Before the tears become a torrent , let's offer 10 copies of this treasure house of a book to 10 Evertonians who may be in urgent need of the comfort that past achievements can sometimes bring . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend might be interested to know that we sent out a questionnaire to 5,293 people who volunteered for redundancy and 76 per cent . |
| 12 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
| 13 | BRITISH motorists must be grateful this festive time to three ladies who will not see a Christmas day lunch . |
| 14 | Master 's Degrees in Business Administration were awarded to 28 Financial Studies Diploma holders who had followed special ‘ conversion courses ’ and to three ACIBs who took the full course . |
| 15 | A bomb on May 1 destroyed a newly unveiled monument in Volta Redonda , approximately 100 km north-west of Rio de Janeiro , to three steelworkers who had been killed by the Army during a strike in November 1988 [ see p. 36553 ] . |
| 16 | Additional awards were made at a later stage to three individuals who were unable to attend . |
| 17 | Bury St Edmunds , according to three people who live there , is an odd place . |
| 18 | You can annotate a task , write down who 's responsible for seeing it through , and the names of up to three people who are involved . |
| 19 | Dean , whose TV character is often on the wrong side of the law , gave chase to three people who allegedly smashed a £500 painting . |
| 20 | Behind each episode of Inspector Morse , there 's a crew of up to 80 technicians who make the gentleman dectective look his best . |
| 21 | Those facts aside , Masham Methodists could possibly reach out to 80 couples who were married in the church . |
| 22 | Infants and children from the age of 7 days to 36 months who presented to the paediatric casualty unit of the hospital with a history of cough and other symptoms of acute infection of the respiratory tract for less than seven days were eligible for inclusion in this study . |
| 23 | To determine the range of oxygen saturation in healthy children in Nairobi , which is 1670 m above sea level , oximetry was carried out in 87 normal healthy children aged 7 days to 36 months who were attending child welfare clinics for immunisation . |
| 24 | This system provided SDI ( Selective Dissemination of Information ) on current data only to eighty scientists who used a set of thirty-eight separate query profiles . |
| 25 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
| 26 | Prior knowledge ranged from seven of the subjects who previously knew all 40 of the junctions down to one subject who previously knew just six , the mean number known was 29.6 . |
| 27 | In fact , the final point on this graph is almost exclusively attributable to one subject who gave a rating of 17 or over on nine separate occasions during the drive . |
| 28 | ‘ I see you got your hair cut by the scenic route , ’ she remarks to one gentleman who has neatly slicked a few strands over his bald patch . |
| 29 | If such a possibility is likely to arise , then the analysis of the actual forms must be confined to one person who will act in complete confidence , destroying the forms as soon as his analysis is complete and there has been adequate discussion of the data ; or preferably , an outside person should be invited to undertake the task . |
| 30 | A news , release sent to The Times , New Printing House Square , Gray 's Inn Road , London WC1 may possibly find its way to one person who will be interested in it , but it is not very likely . |