Example sentences of "terms of up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
| 2 | More than half the book is based on material from the ensuing trial , which resulted in six BCCI staff being sentenced to terms of up to 14 years and BCCI being fined US$14 million . |
| 3 | Leeds Permanent has launched a range of ‘ pick ‘ n ’ fix ’ mortgages with terms of up to 25 years . |
| 4 | Also amnestied were all prisoners ( except repeated offenders ) who had been sentenced before Dec. 22 , 1989 , to prison terms of up to three years for crimes other than murder , rape , grievous bodily harm , robbery , bribe-taking and abuse of power . |
| 5 | The new law , which was due to enter into force on July 1 , made premeditated money laundering a crime punishable by fines of up to 1,000,000 Swiss francs ( US$1,500,000 ) and by prison terms of up to five years . |
| 6 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 7 | An Oct. 20 order to " purify " religion , outlawing all but nine Buddhist sects and introducing prison terms of up to three years for those found posing as monks , became law on Oct. 31 . |
| 8 | To this end 224 soldiers were dismissed from the Army for their role in the failed Mindanao revolt in October 1990 [ see p. 37781 ] , whilst on Dec. 19 a total of 81 officers and men received prison terms of up to 32 years for participating in an August 1987 coup attempt in which over 50 people were killed [ see pp. 35709-11 ] . |
| 9 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 reported that 34 opposition politicians had recently been sentenced — some in absentia — to prison terms of up to 25 years after being found guilty of high treason . |
| 10 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 11 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 12 | On Aug. 30 five of the remaining seven fishermen were sentenced to prison terms of up to 14 months after being found guilty of " violation of freedom " . |
| 13 | Eight opposition politicians were sentenced on Sept. 23 to prison terms of up to three years on charges of " acting as a fifth column " during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 14 | Charges against the officials , who , if found guilty , faced prison terms of up to five years , were brought on behalf of 27 affected haemophiliacs , some of whom had already died from AIDS . |
| 15 | * Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer announced plans for legislation under which exporters who dumped waste illegally abroad would be liable to prison terms of up to 10 years . |