Example sentences of "[subord] up to [art] " in BNC.

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1 But the anchorage where the destroyer headquarters ship with its rear admiral 's flag once lay , and where up to a dozen destroyers might be swinging with the tide at their buoys , was now empty water .
2 Throughout the post-1868 years the rural — urban balance was shifting away from the countryside in the wake of rapid population increase and industrialization , although up to the Pacific War at least half the population continued to reside in small towns and villages , and there was little absolute fall in the rural population until the late 1930s .
3 Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps .
4 The part of this street above the church is known as the Rue de la Citadelle , because up to the right is the large classical citadel , built in the seventeenth century and reshaped soon after , along with the town walls , by the inescapable Vauban , whose job it was to make south-west France for ever safe from incursions from across the mountains .
5 It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery .
6 President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes .
7 Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle .
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