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 . |