Example sentences of "of [indef pn] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could therefore spend a considerable period of time in the towers , in full uniform , in temperatures of anything up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit , or more . |
| 2 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 3 | The sows commence pregnancy after a delayed implantation of fertilised eggs of anything up to nine months . |
| 4 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 5 | The Commission can suspend or disbar any person from the securities industry ; require disgorgement of profits ; and impose penalties of anything up to three times the illicit gains made on the insider trades . |
| 6 | This is sunk to a depth of anything up to forty feet , on a lead-core line , and towed behind a slowly moving boat , fingers crossed . |
| 7 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |