Example sentences of "[v-ing] for up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hopes to have up to 600 companies on the books within a year with larger companies looking for up to 100 products each . |
| 2 | Sixteen year olds not in full-time education will be entitled to a new traineeship lasting for up to two years , with an option of a further two years . |
| 3 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said the hearing , which had already cost the authority £90,000 , was only due to last ten days but now there was prospect of it continuing for up to three months . |
| 4 | Collectively , these statutes enable the police to stop and search suspects and ask for personal details , to enter forcibly and search private properties , to detain suspects for questioning for up to 72 hours and to use as much discretion as they require to impose bans or conditions on marches or assemblies . |
| 5 | Under South African law police could hold the man for questioning for up to 48 hours before seeking the permission of magistrates for an extension . |
| 6 | Your poor old missus is being relatively undemanding in only asking for up to 15 minutes . |
| 7 | When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses , at the rate of 10–100 per second for up to 10 seconds , they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus , persisting for up to ten hours . |
| 8 | I have used my wife and son as models , and my wife , who sadly died three years ago , was often heroic , posing for up to 30 hours for a single drawing . |
| 9 | The Parliament of the Cook Islands comprises 24 members ( nine representing the main island of Raratonga , 14 representing constituencies on other islands , and one representing the many Cook Islanders resident in New Zealand ) sitting for up to five years . |
| 10 | For the rest of the time it is a mass of dead stems which can remain standing for up to two years , a sight distasteful to town-dwellers who , thanks to the energies of gardeners and the preference of landscape architects for evergreens , are not accustomed to seeing decay . |
| 11 | In Bulgaria , where motorists had reportedly been queuing for up to three days at pumps , rationing was introduced on Oct. 15 . |
| 12 | ‘ With the nesting period stretching for up to 10 weeks , the bill for this kind of activity in Orkney alone can quickly reach £20,000 . |