Example sentences of "[verb] up to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 2 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 3 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 4 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 5 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 6 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 7 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 8 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 9 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 10 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 11 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 12 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 13 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 14 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 15 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 16 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 18 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 19 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 20 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 21 | Oxford currently houses up to a 190 prisoners , many on remand . |
| 22 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 23 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |