Example sentences of "with up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 2 | Thai military sources had been predicting the imminent fall of Pailin , saying that the Khmer Rouge were bombarding the town with up to 1,000 shells a day . |
| 3 | The remaining graves , probably about 280 — filled with up to 1,000 more weapons and jewellery items — will be excavated only if finance for future digs becomes available . |
| 4 | The sole equivalent here is the modest ‘ give as you earn ’ scheme , with up to £480 a year deductable from taxable salary if donated to a registered charity . |
| 5 | The fact that Omsk railway station on the less-frequented eastern escape route was sometimes deluged with up to 20,000 refugees a day gives some idea of the scale of migration . |
| 6 | These will include a bridging loan of $500million from the World Bank to International Settlements in Basle ; debt relief from the Paris and London clubs ; a World Bank credit of up to $1.7billion together with up to $1billion in funding from the EC . |
| 7 | New Year 's Eve is the busiest period of the year for emergency services , with up to 300 calls an hour . |
| 8 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |
| 9 | Because Hector 's dolphins can not hold their breath for long and dives rarely exceed 2 minutes ( compared with up to 8 minutes for a bottlenose dolphin ) , entanglement in a set-net is usually fatal . |
| 10 | A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons , particularly axes , shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC : ‘ pure ’ copper ; arsenical copper ( an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic ) ; tin bronze or leaded tin bronze ; and iron . |
| 11 | Control panels bristled with up to thirty-five switches and buttons as if the housewife-technologist required the skills of an airline pilot . |
| 12 | A metabolite is a small ‘ organic ’ ( that is , carbon-containing ) molecule , with up to about 50 atoms . |
| 13 | British scientists at a conference last week , organised by the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine and held at the Royal Marsden Hospital , London , described neural computers able to diagnose a host of medical conditions — from heart problems to eye defects — with up to 98 per cent accuracy . |
| 14 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 15 | Easily reached from most parts of the country , short sea crossings to Fleetwood , Stranraer and Cairnryan , coupled with up to 34 ferry arrivals and departures daily illustrate the Port of Larne 's importance to Industry and Commerce . |
| 16 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 17 | The stations all followed the standard plan with a freight and/or baggage room at one end , the waiting-room at the other , the agent 's office with its bay window in the middle , and accommodation for the agent and his family , usually consisting of a kitchen and living-room , downstairs at the back of the station with up to four bedrooms upstairs . |
| 18 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 19 | They are later carted to a ‘ clamp ’ which should be sited on free-draining ground , and covered with up to a foot of straw or bracken . |
| 20 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 21 | Some clays are worse than others , and among those with a high risk are : Ampthill , Gault , Kimmeridge , London , Oxford , Reading , Wadhurst and Weald clays , with up to 100mm ( 4in ) differential settlements being observed . |
| 22 | With up to one third of a lifetime now being spent in retirement , increasing attention is being paid to the quality of that life . |
| 23 | The system includes image processing and analysis software and provides 12-bit greyscale information , it supports high resolution cameras with up to 2000 x 2000 pixels . |
| 24 | For such borrowers the use of syndicated loans enables the managing bank to obtain funds more quickly , in greater amounts and at a lower cost than would be the case in conducting separate negotiations with up to fifty lending banks . |
| 25 | The kestrel and hen harrier produce similar levels of breakage ( 7–11 per cent : Table 3.11 ) and the mammalian carnivores very much higher , with up to 65 per cent of the molars broken and up to 88 per cent of the incisors . |
| 26 | This is most clear in Pagham Harbour , where the National Wildfowl Counts until 1963 recorded a normal winter peak of 100 birds , with up to 300 in severe weather ( Atkinson-Willes 1963 ) . |
| 27 | The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy . |
| 28 | The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy . |
| 29 | The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy . |
| 30 | Thus , between 1965 and 1976 between one and seven pairs were found present annually , nearly all in West Sussex , compared with up to four pairs between 1950 and 1956 . |