Example sentences of "period [prep] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 2 | Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter , after a gestation period of up to 10 months . |
| 3 | While temporarily unloaded from any of the said vehicles in the course of a journey for a period of up to 72 hours ( not counting Sunday or any Public Holiday ) anywhere in England Scotland or Wales . |
| 4 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 5 | The appointment will be for a period of up to two years and will be made on the Research Support 1A salary scale £ to £ per annum . |
| 6 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 7 | The research concentrates on 40 Protestant and Catholic , skilled and semi-skilled , married men in two age groups ( 25-35 and 40-50 ) who will be ‘ followed ’ from the start of their spell of unemployment for a period of up to 17 months ( or until they regain paid work ) , interviews being conducted at approximately 5 month intervals . |
| 8 | As far as I was concerned these were absolutely sacrosanct , especially when working in the Klondyke ports for period of up to twelve days . |
| 9 | The hotelier is required to keep a record of this information which is open to inspection by the police for a period of up to twelve months . |
| 10 | ( iii ) Compensation will be made for 50% of the difference between the travelling times as defined in para. ( i ) above and will be applied , where appropriate , for a period of up to 4 years . |
| 11 | A sunshine holiday , with exotic food washed down by local water can leave an unwelcome souvenir — the disease hepatitis A. Not life-threatening , but with nasty symptoms and a recovery period of up to 80 days , guaranteed to tarnish the holiday memories . |
| 12 | The approved income of the company will be exempt from tax for a period of up to five years with a possible extension of a further five years after that . |
| 13 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 14 | There would then follow a transitional period of up to five years during which " matters arising " from secession would have to be resolved , such as the status of USSR military facilities on the republic 's territory , ownership of economic plant and infrastructure , material and financial settlements ( including compensation to citizens wishing to remain in the USSR and therefore requiring resettlement outside the seceding republic ) , and the status of any territories ceded to the republic after its original accession to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE , A NEW ENTITLEMENT TO TRAIN FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FOUR YEARS , WITH A QUALIFICATION AT THE END OF IT COMPARABLE TO THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE STAYED AT SCHOOL . |
| 16 | If the new job is different in any way , an employee can try it out for a trial period of up to four weeks . |
| 17 | The period of up to eighteen weeks during which SMP can be paid . |
| 18 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 19 | In international trade , short term finance is considered to cover a period of up to 6 months from the date of invoice or shipment and can therefore be considerably longer than the 30 , 60 or 90 days credit extended to buyers in the home market . |
| 20 | The board is exposed to UV light for a period of up to 20 minutes or so . |
| 21 | Then all the comparatively non-radioactive building materials and superstructure would be removed — again over a period of up to seven years . |
| 22 | The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes . |
| 23 | They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached … |
| 24 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 25 | That means often a period of up to three months . |
| 26 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 27 | Third — A Loan Agreement for a period of up to ten years shall be executed between the Foundation and the owners of the category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings . |
| 28 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 29 | They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months . |