Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 2 | Consolidation is a pleasurable process : " What does all this add up to ? " |
| 3 | Each interview — some last up to 11 hours — is a recorded autobiography . |
| 4 | There are dresses for £2.99 , but some go up to £20 , but would probably have been two or three times that when new . |
| 5 | Average price for a home is £3 million but some fetch up to three times more . |
| 6 | The distances doctors cover are a great waste of time … some spend up to four hours a day walking from department to department . |
| 7 | These service up to 80,000 people , and their high quality acts as an attraction to tourists . |
| 8 | Together these add up to good badger country . |
| 9 | ( These add up to more than forty because some women mentioned more than one topic . ) |
| 10 | In addition , an NHS general practitioner now prescribes at a rate of £100000 a year , and it is likely that referrals and use of other hospital services may amount to £200000 a year — these add up to £12m over 40 years . |
| 11 | These add up to -0.332 ; to arrange that the average seasonal effect is zero , we should subtract -0.332÷4 = -0.083 from each giving |
| 12 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 13 | Growing slowly to form dense mats , some with strands several m long , these fix up to 6g C m -2 annually . |
| 14 | These take up to eighteen months to disappear . |
| 15 | A sense of responsibility in the children that we help , that they all grow up to be responsible adults . |
| 16 | Six supermodels feature in the new spring/summer Littlewoods home shopping catalogue , and though they all charge up to £10,000 for a single day 's work the clothes they model for Littlewoods are all within easy reach of every woman . |
| 17 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 18 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |
| 19 | Wage and salary awards , high interest charges , the rise in VAT and general inflation all add up to increased overheads , which are reflected in the price of a funeral . |
| 20 | A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill . |
| 21 | Each separate printing from the same type-setting is an impression , first , second , fifth or tenth ; but they all add up to one edition . |
| 22 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 23 | The lovely oriel windows , the shapely gables , the cobbled streets , the carved doorways , the murals and frescoes , all add up to an artistic totality . |
| 24 | The different combinations of colour , beautiful designs , textures , fibres and weaves all add up to a vast range of fabrics from which to choose and at enormously varying prices . |
| 25 | brand-names , chewed gum-wads : all add up to something |
| 26 | ‘ Now tell me what you all get up to , ’ Diana greeted them . |
| 27 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 28 | bloody firemen all come up to the bed ! |
| 29 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 30 | The MP wrote to Environment Minister Robert Atkins pointing out that although the men were retained firemen and the only hours that count are when they are ‘ on duty ’ , many have up to years of service under their belts . |