Example sentences of "of up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 6 | The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When this is the case , a fee of up to £10 … may be charged ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | This beer then spends from two to four weeks of warm conditioning at temperatures of up to 15°C . |
| 12 | Suitable for porches and covered areas , ELEC 's PIR Lantern Light in black has an adjustable sensor range of up to 50ft |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He is accused of making a false statement prior to entering the US , which carries a sentence of up to five years in jail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His family is believed to have paid a ransom of up to $1m . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | AMI Healthcare , at 395p , has a potential takeover price of up to 550p , Smith New Court believes . |
| 25 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 26 | The ‘ rolling programme ’ approach would mean creating an enlarged and more representative executive , fed by policy commissions of up to 100 members . |
| 27 | Emma Nicholson , Conservative MP for Devon West and Torridge , has lobbied that it should be , and for prison sentences of up to 10 years for culprits . |
| 28 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 29 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 30 | The annual subscription for large companies is still Ecu200,000 , but companies with sales of up to Ecu8bn can pay Ecu100,000 a year . |