Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] up to " in BNC.
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1 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
2 | Active exploration requires a Mines Royal Licence , issued for twelve months extended annually for up to three years dependent on satisfactory progress . |
3 | We had a number of Koi and Goldfish which had lived together for up to ten years and many were quite large . |
4 | A Wellcome spokesman said the Anglo-French Concorde trials show ‘ an encouragingly low incidence of adverse reactions associated with one gramme of Zidovudine daily for up to four years ’ . |
5 | These will include a bridging loan of $500million from the World Bank to International Settlements in Basle ; debt relief from the Paris and London clubs ; a World Bank credit of up to $1.7billion together with up to $1billion in funding from the EC . |
6 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
7 | And a new MultiPoint Control Unit , which implements Px64 standards , can be used to manage video conferences between several locations — customers can talk together at up to 24 different sites per unit , even if the locations use a variety of video conferencing endpoints , provided they meet the Px64 standard . |
8 | That really encourages us to say now that prices will fall in nineteen ninety , but only marginally , perhaps by up to two or three per cent or so , but gradually there we 'll see a recovery now in nineteen ninety one , and that 's why we 're saying price rises by the end of ninety one of five per cent or more even . |
9 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
10 | The railway was worked daily by up to six steam engines until the early 1960s when new diesel locomotives took over . |
11 | Sometimes the soldiers can be away for up to five weeks at a time . |
12 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 survey of relocation policies found that 96 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed compensated their employees for the costs of living in temporary accommodation , with 78 per cent compensating for hotel and/or rented accommodation for a fixed period , generally for up to three months . |
13 | More torrential rain is forecast tonight with up to four inches of rain expected in some parts of Gloucestershire . |
14 | A porsche and a BMW were sold yesterday for up to thirty thousand pounds . |
15 | In a pair of experiments designed to determine the amount of Ac-ASA remaining intracellularly after up to six washings , the amount of Ac-ASA present intracellularly stayed remarkably constant , following an initial drop which probably represents the removal of major surface contamination ( Fig 6 ) . |
16 | Parties are usually of up to about 50 birds , but flocks of up to 150 are not rare ; the largest flock in recent years was of c. 400 birds in the Sidlesham area in early 1963 . |
17 | He also foreshadowed a limited life for the company , possibly of up to five years . |
18 | This allows up to ten different files to be open at once in up to four different windows . |
19 | The New York Times said US Trade Representative Carla Hills would announce taxes of 100% or more on up to £240m worth of luxury European exports . |
20 | The New York Times said US Trade Representative Carla Hills would announce taxes of 100% or more on up to £240m worth of luxury European exports . |
21 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
22 | The two Bf 109s responsible , were disposed of very quickly by up to 50 American fighters that were flying as fighter escort . |
23 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
24 | There is sufficient pasture now for up to 3000 sheep , and there has been talk of introducing a Scottish blackface flock . |
25 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
26 | On the Island of Delos some of the later houses , built c. 150–50 B.C. , extended upwards for up to four storeys ; they have survived extremely well ( III ) . |
27 | Store the loaf in a cake tin and slice it when needed — it keeps well for up to one week |
28 | Worst-hit are clothing and shoe stores where sales crashed even with up to 70 per cent price cuts . |
29 | They will remain there for up to ten weeks , before being brought into a warm greenhouse so we can force them into flower . |
30 | Stay there for up to five minutes . |