Example sentences of "period [prep] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 2 | The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes . |
| 3 | The period of up to eighteen weeks during which SMP can be paid . |
| 4 | An employee who qualifies only for the lower rate of SMP is entitled to it throughout the Maternity Pay Period of up to 18 weeks . |
| 5 | They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached … |
| 6 | Then all the comparatively non-radioactive building materials and superstructure would be removed — again over a period of up to seven years . |
| 7 | £40 per day , tax-free , as soon as you 're admitted to hospital for a period of up to one year . |
| 8 | Double Benefits of £80 per day for a period of up to one year — if you 're hospitalised because of an accident . |
| 9 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 10 | Lump sum Convalescence Benefit — £20 per day , also tax-free — for a period of up to one year , payable on discharge when a hospital stay is 21 days or more . |
| 11 | Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter , after a gestation period of up to 10 months . |
| 12 | The board is exposed to UV light for a period of up to 20 minutes or so . |
| 13 | While temporarily unloaded from any of the said vehicles in the course of a journey for a period of up to 72 hours ( not counting Sunday or any Public Holiday ) anywhere in England Scotland or Wales . |
| 14 | If the new job is different in any way , an employee can try it out for a trial period of up to four weeks . |
| 15 | The appointment will be for a period of up to two years and will be made on the Research Support 1A salary scale £ to £ per annum . |
| 16 | The approved income of the company will be exempt from tax for a period of up to five years with a possible extension of a further five years after that . |
| 17 | All filters will require a short ‘ run-in ’ period of up to three or four weeks during which time you should keep stock and feed levels low and conduct extra partial water changes . |
| 18 | The hotelier is required to keep a record of this information which is open to inspection by the police for a period of up to twelve months . |
| 19 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 20 | Third — A Loan Agreement for a period of up to ten years shall be executed between the Foundation and the owners of the category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings . |
| 21 | After the close down date most companies will allow a period of up to , say , 14 days for processing the various items of paperwork through both sets of accounts . |
| 22 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 23 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 24 | As far as I was concerned these were absolutely sacrosanct , especially when working in the Klondyke ports for period of up to twelve days . |
| 25 | In international trade , short term finance is considered to cover a period of up to 6 months from the date of invoice or shipment and can therefore be considerably longer than the 30 , 60 or 90 days credit extended to buyers in the home market . |
| 26 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 27 | The research concentrates on 40 Protestant and Catholic , skilled and semi-skilled , married men in two age groups ( 25-35 and 40-50 ) who will be ‘ followed ’ from the start of their spell of unemployment for a period of up to 17 months ( or until they regain paid work ) , interviews being conducted at approximately 5 month intervals . |
| 28 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 29 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 30 | There would then follow a transitional period of up to five years during which " matters arising " from secession would have to be resolved , such as the status of USSR military facilities on the republic 's territory , ownership of economic plant and infrastructure , material and financial settlements ( including compensation to citizens wishing to remain in the USSR and therefore requiring resettlement outside the seceding republic ) , and the status of any territories ceded to the republic after its original accession to the Soviet Union . |