Example sentences of "of [noun sg] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a varied , highly satisfying climb , ’ says Walsh , ‘ with quite a bit of ice up to 55 degrees ; VS standard rock , albeit with old fixed ropes , and some tiring plodding through knee-deep powder . ’ |
| 2 | Rates of erosion up to 30 tonnes per hectare were recorded in some areas . |
| 3 | The study of areas in the regions of Smolyan in southern Bulgaria and Mikhaylovgrad in the north-west found levels of radioactivity up to 400 becquerels a kilogram . |
| 4 | On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists . |
| 5 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 6 | But as he was passing it across he paused halfway , holding the precious piece of paper up by three fingers . |
| 7 | One extra week 's notice has to be given in respect of each full year of employment up to 12 years . |
| 8 | Sandford pool in Cheltenham ; at the height of summer up to 10,000 bathers a day swim and soak up the sun . |
| 9 | Even if it measures the use of redundancy up to ten words either side of the deletion , this is still not the same as measuring comprehension : as we saw in the Bailey and Harrison study , redundancy and comprehensibility can be very different aspects of a text . |
| 10 | A layer of pumice up to four metres deep covered the countryside . |