Example sentences of "[prep] up to " in BNC.

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1 No significant difference was found in mean Hamilton score in the 21 item scale for serotonin reuptake inhibitors compared with tricyclic and related antidepressants , after up to eight weeks of treatment ( mean difference 0.13 ; 95% confidence interval -1.01 to 1.28 ) ( fig 1 ) .
2 Before entering the trial patients had to show no more than minimal improvement after up to six weeks treatment with haloperidol , in high doses .
3 Bulgarian leaders raised further objections after up to 100,000 people had held a rally on Feb. 20 in Skopje , capital of Yugoslavia 's Macedonian republic , to show solidarity with Bulgaria 's Macedonians .
4 Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds .
5 In a pair of experiments designed to determine the amount of Ac-ASA remaining intracellularly after up to six washings , the amount of Ac-ASA present intracellularly stayed remarkably constant , following an initial drop which probably represents the removal of major surface contamination ( Fig 6 ) .
6 She was arrested in Turkey after up to one hundred and thirty thousand pounds disappeared from the charity .
7 Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years .
8 Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days .
9 The unit allows messages of up to 55 characters to be printed and has a repeat function which means repetitive text need not be re-keyed .
10 Crossing the boundary , I always check the airspeed because I know that above 60 knots , if necessary , I can make a well banked turn of up to 180° , with virtually no loss of height and return for a downwind landing .
11 If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought .
12 The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes .
13 Minor works grants of up to £1,000 are available to home owners or private tenants over the age of 60 who are in receipt of Income Support , Community Charge Benefit , or Housing Benefit .
14 When this is the case , a fee of up to £10 … may be charged ’ .
15 The maximum security deposit that British Telecom ( BT ) can ask of new residential customers is now £150 compared to amounts of up to £700 previously .
16 26pp plus two overhead projector transparencies and one set of New Lifestyles cards ( sufficient material for two groups of up to twenty-four people in total ) .
17 This beer then spends from two to four weeks of warm conditioning at temperatures of up to 15°C .
18 Suitable for porches and covered areas , ELEC 's PIR Lantern Light in black has an adjustable sensor range of up to 50ft
19 It comes complete with all fittings for usual tap-threads , and all you will need is a wrench to tighten it in position to comply with the law — incidentally , a fine of up to £400 can be imposed for non-compliance with the law !
20 In a separate publication1 , I feel that I have shown that the inter-reaction processes involved when two dominant forms of ion are present can cause one ion form to screen the geomagnetic field effective on the other form to bring about a resonance at a frequency of up to 1.5 times higher that that for a single ion .
21 The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched .
22 A statement from Grand Met said : ‘ In a limited auction conducted recently by Brent Walker , Grand Met agreed to purchase Whyte & Mackay at a price of up to £150m .
23 The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps .
24 He introduced new boilers in the boilerhouse under the main galleries ; he installed a completely new steel structure in the ceiling above the entrance hall — without harming the ceiling paintings by Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffmann ; he rebuilt the goods lift to carry loads of up to three tonnes into the galleries ; he refurbished the public cloakrooms .
25 The dig has shown that the 90ft long north wall of the keep and fragments of the east and west walls survive to a height of up to 18ft .
26 He is accused of making a false statement prior to entering the US , which carries a sentence of up to five years in jail .
27 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 .
28 His family is believed to have paid a ransom of up to $1m .
29 It will ride the jet stream between the troposphere and stratosphere at speeds of up to 320 kilometres per hour ( 200mph ) and will carry atmospheric experiments for the Japanese meteorological agency .
30 AMI Healthcare , at 395p , has a potential takeover price of up to 550p , Smith New Court believes .
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