Example sentences of "there be up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems .
2 There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time .
3 The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom .
4 There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower .
5 The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement .
6 At other times in action there were up to 630 men in a Commando .
7 Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen .
8 Then , on Friday 29 October , inshore fishermen reported that there were up to 100 whales dead and alive , in the vicinity of Clay Hole ( see map ) .
9 Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom .
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