Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports suggest that up to 5,000 of Olivetti 's 46,000 staff could be laid off under the company 's latest restructuring plan for the coming year . |
| 2 | Some estimates suggest that up to 11 per cent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost . |
| 3 | Almost a quarter of Galway 's manufacturing workforce are being put out of a job and local business leaders say that up to 2,000 more could be made redundant by the ripple effect hitting Digital 's contractors and suppliers . |
| 4 | Some estimates say that up to 9.5 million people are now using some type of dBase , yet the three main variants are not cross-compatible . |
| 5 | 7.1.3 Changes in the taper arrangements for housing benefit which mean that up to 85% of income above the Income Support Level will be set against Housing Benefit entitlement . |
| 6 | whatever you , whatever your grant is whether it 's eight hundred pounds , parents subsidize that up to the two thousand whatever |
| 7 | But the authority 's figures show that up to September , 1991 , of the 4,916 Aids cases reported six per cent were black and only one per cent Asian or Oriental . |
| 8 | Government estimates show that up to 45% of electricity demand could be met from wind power . |
| 9 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 10 | Figures for locomotive manufacture in Prussia show that up to 1842 the bulk of Prussian locomotives were imported from Britain . |
| 11 | Studies show that up to 40 per cent of expatriate US executives fail on foreign assignments , and have to be sent home , and that expatriate managers are increasingly considered by the TNCs to be a source of avoidable trouble and expense ( Harvey , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | New calculations reveal that up to one fifth of the estimated global rate of nitrogen fixation results from natural biomass burning . |
| 13 | The guidelines sent to the the county council reveal that up to 400 ministry of defence officials are on standby to take over . |
| 14 | Next , I get one of those high-speed electric drills and I couple that up to the end of the cable in such a way that when the drill turns , it turns the cable backwards . |
| 15 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 16 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 17 | After approximately 18 months , maternal antibodies in the baby disappear and up to 87% of babies born to HIV positive women WILL NOT carry the virus . |
| 18 | Between 100 and 150 children have it , although some scientists believe that up to 3,000 may be affected . |
| 19 | Detectives now believe that up to eight members of the 18-strong gang are actually killers who have fired fatal bullets in gun attacks in North Belfast . |
| 20 | Some experts reckon that up to DM1 trillion will be needed to bring the ramshackle east up to western scratch . |
| 21 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 22 | Some critics claim that up to two tonnes of the element has ‘ gone astray ’ from the civil stockpile . |
| 23 | And they warn that up to £12m may soon have to be invested in major work . |
| 24 | I wonder if up to them you know . |
| 25 | Members of the project envisage that up to 50 more birds may need to be introduced over the next two years before a self-supporting sea eagle population can be established . |
| 26 | I estimate that up to £500,000 worth of crops were saved . ’ |
| 27 | Housing analysts estimate that up to 500,000 young people have steered clear of becoming home owners since the property slump of the late Eighties . |
| 28 | Bradshaw and Millar estimate that up to 70 per cent of lone mothers could be employed if all who said they wanted to could immediately get jobs and child care . |
| 29 | Analysts estimate that up to half the monies owed currently go uncollected . |
| 30 | The EPA estimate that up to one-third of cars may fail the high-tech test . |