Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 2 | He grew up to a lithe 5 feet 11¼ inches and 10½ stone . |
| 3 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 4 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast to mark the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 5 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
| 6 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 7 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 8 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 9 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 10 | Vaillant Thermocompact wall-hung gas boiler models VC 112E and 182E are now fully approved — BSI Kitemarked and British Gas service listed — for installations with flues up to a nominal five metres in length . |
| 11 | And if the consultant decides an operation is required , as routine patients , they could face another wait of up to a further 2 years . |
| 12 | Cats , on the other hand , can hear sounds up to an astonishing 10,000 cycles per second . |
| 13 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 14 | Darren bought a 72,000-mile Sierra Sapphire 16 months ago and has now run the mileage up to an incredible 112,500 miles with no attention apart from a new exhaust , replacement rev-counter and three services . |