Example sentences of "[v-ing] for up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiered grandstand seating for up to 800 people will be available at Bishops Lydeard for each of the two Cavalcades held each day in between normal WSR service trains . |
| 2 | And management at the Trawsfynydd power station made it clear yesterday that they were still looking for up to 50 voluntary redundancies at the station this year . |
| 3 | He hopes to have up to 600 companies on the books within a year with larger companies looking for up to 100 products each . |
| 4 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 5 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 6 | Dovercourt was designed for at most 500 residents but was providing for up to twice as many . |
| 7 | Sixteen year olds not in full-time education will be entitled to a new traineeship lasting for up to two years , with an option of a further two years . |
| 8 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said the hearing , which had already cost the authority £90,000 , was only due to last ten days but now there was prospect of it continuing for up to three months . |
| 9 | Under South African law police could hold the man for questioning for up to 48 hours before seeking the permission of magistrates for an extension . |
| 10 | Collectively , these statutes enable the police to stop and search suspects and ask for personal details , to enter forcibly and search private properties , to detain suspects for questioning for up to 72 hours and to use as much discretion as they require to impose bans or conditions on marches or assemblies . |
| 11 | Your poor old missus is being relatively undemanding in only asking for up to 15 minutes . |
| 12 | You may have received a letter from them early in 1984 asking for up to date details . |
| 13 | The scent is transferred to the tibiae in night , the bees re-alighting and collecting for up to 1 hour . |
| 14 | The firm claims that three of its objects are as powerful as seven handwritten SQL queries , with 50 objects combining for up to 1m possible queries . |
| 15 | The firm claims three of its objects are as powerful as seven handwritten SQL queries , with 50 objects combining for up to 1,000,000 possible queries . |
| 16 | When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses , at the rate of 10–100 per second for up to 10 seconds , they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus , persisting for up to ten hours . |
| 17 | I have used my wife and son as models , and my wife , who sadly died three years ago , was often heroic , posing for up to 30 hours for a single drawing . |
| 18 | The Parliament of the Cook Islands comprises 24 members ( nine representing the main island of Raratonga , 14 representing constituencies on other islands , and one representing the many Cook Islanders resident in New Zealand ) sitting for up to five years . |
| 19 | For the rest of the time it is a mass of dead stems which can remain standing for up to two years , a sight distasteful to town-dwellers who , thanks to the energies of gardeners and the preference of landscape architects for evergreens , are not accustomed to seeing decay . |
| 20 | In Bulgaria , where motorists had reportedly been queuing for up to three days at pumps , rationing was introduced on Oct. 15 . |
| 21 | ‘ With the nesting period stretching for up to 10 weeks , the bill for this kind of activity in Orkney alone can quickly reach £20,000 . |