Example sentences of "[that] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the year 2000 the World Health Organisation estimates that up to 40 million people will be infected with HIV . |
| 2 | In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture . |
| 3 | ‘ The main differences between the two styles of cuisine is in the way the Chinese blend ingredients , how they introduce colour into the food , and that up to 90% of the work is done prior to cooking . ’ |
| 4 | He said that up to 1,000 guerrillas were trying to rout or encircle government posts to force defenders to flee . |
| 5 | Mr Pickard says that up to £6.3m of special factors depressed profits . |
| 6 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 7 | The inner chamber is designed so that up to four volunteers can be accommodated in modest comfort ( though , as already mentioned , free-running experiments are performed on one volunteer only ) . |
| 8 | The office warns that up to 4,250 of the 5,900 concrete bridges could be contaminated , which would require £800 million to be spent over the next 15 years . |
| 9 | With counting incomplete , triumphant water minister Michael Howard has already announced that up to 1.4 million people have applied for water shares — and the figure could well top 2 million . |
| 10 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 11 | The East German news agency ADN reported that up to 4,000 people had been killed . |
| 12 | THE former Cabinet Minister , Mr Norman Tebbit , yesterday led an angry response from the Tory backbenches to Mr Douglas Hurd 's announcement in the Commons that up to 250,000 Hong Kong people will be offered full British citizenship in the hope of staunching the ‘ haemorrhage of talent ’ from the colony . |
| 13 | Some experts reckon that up to DM1 trillion will be needed to bring the ramshackle east up to western scratch . |
| 14 | A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision . |
| 15 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 16 | But the authority 's figures show that up to September , 1991 , of the 4,916 Aids cases reported six per cent were black and only one per cent Asian or Oriental . |
| 17 | THE American government predicts that up to 239 American banks , with assets of $116 billion ( £67 billion ) , will fail this year . |
| 18 | Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion . |
| 19 | Recent estimates have suggested that up to 40 per cent of the deputies favour such an option , with 30 per cent undecided . |
| 20 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said a union claim that up to 5,000 of its 21,000 staff faced the axe was ‘ nonsense ’ . |
| 21 | One leading businessman said this week that up to 70 per cent of shares traded every day were being sold overseas . |
| 22 | He predicted that up to 2,000 schools would vote to join the 200 that had already chosen to run their own affairs — a development that could spell the end of council involvement in education . |
| 23 | On checking artists , names appended it appears that up to 1756 Jeffreys did most of the engraving for Figures of Plants but thereafter his name disappears except for the odd plate , which may well have been made earlier . |
| 24 | The Halcrow Report commissioned by the DoE pointed out in 1988 that up to 8,000 people around Luton and Dunstable were drinking water with these solvents at four times the World Health Organisation 's maximum recommended level , while about 80,000 drank water with trichlorethylene at 150 per cent of the limit . |
| 25 | Government estimates show that up to 45% of electricity demand could be met from wind power . |
| 26 | The National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) which advises the government on radiation hazards , now estimates that up to a hundred people will have died from the fallout . |
| 27 | Some critics claim that up to two tonnes of the element has ‘ gone astray ’ from the civil stockpile . |
| 28 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 29 | The Times 12.1.90 reported that public health labs have found that up to 60% of all uncooked chickens in shops are contaminated by Salmonella and Listeria . |
| 30 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |