Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 Earlier , the EPA had issued regulations allowing public utilities up to 21 years to remove dangerous levels of lead from drinking water .
2 A business tenant is entitled to a new contractual tenancy for a fixed term up to 14 years .
3 These included offering customers with a repayment mortgage the option of extending the term up to 35 years , while endowment customers were told that they could spread the excess ( the difference between the amount borrowed and their present balance ) over a longer period .
4 I clinically affected animals up to two years old these are usually in excess of 3.0 i.u. tyrosine ( normal levels are 1.0 i.u. in non-parasitised calves ) .
5 Grazing horses usually carry a mixed burden of large and small strongyles and the major clinical signs associated with heavy infections in animals up to 2-3 years of age are unthriftiness , anaemia and sometimes diarrhoea .
6 However it is difficult to understand how the government arrives at a post-trial solution to a pre-trial problem ; unless it is their intention to lock youngsters up for three years in the new approved schools without trial .
7 The scheme applies to Peugeots up to five years old and there is no limit on cost , ‘ as long as it is a part that keeps the vehicle off the road ’ .
8 The parts promise applies to all parts which keep the vehicle off the road , and on all Peugeot models up to five years old .
9 Regarding fees , pre-booking is available at £12.50 per adult and £6.00 per child up to twelve years old .
10 Now , a Canadian study suggests that smoking during pregnancy can have more long-term effects , causing hyperactivity in the child up to seven years later !
11 Usually the shop sells the goods , a finance company pays the shop , and the buyer pays back the finance house , usually in month instalments up to two-and-a-half years ; interest rate fixed at start .
12 Main picture ( clockwise from top left ) Arthur Robb , who has crafted between 60 and 70 lutes , with a mid-Renaissance , seven-course ( 13-stringed ) instrument ; Arthur restored guitars up to 200 years old ; in a tradition dating back five centuries , the rose motif is carved from the soundboard with a single , sharp knife ; strips of yew and sycamore will form the lute ribs .
13 The wise organization now engages a multi- disciplinary team up to three years before the system is commissioned which carefully investigates every aspect and agrees decisions with every individual affected — both inside and outside the organization .
14 How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ?
15 He and the Bosnian Croat leader , Mate Boban , also signed a new paper giving interim arrangements for governing the country during a period up to two years .
16 There are reductions up to four years , but again it would depend on how much your size of your estate is at the end of the day , when you do finally go as well .
17 In fact , Tessas are a very tax-efficient way to save — provided that you are prepared to tie your money up for five years .
18 Table I also shows the trends in deaths at ages up to 65 years .
19 This was done by costing programmes up to five years ahead .
20 The public expenditure White Papers gave finance officers a broad indication of the government 's medium-term intentions for local authority spending overall and for each service up to three years ahead .
21 The absolute number of adults classed as disabled increases continuously with age up to 79 years and then decreases slightly .
22 These recommend that a local child psychiatric team should be involved with all such individuals and their families , and that young people up to 14 years of age should be admitted to a paediatric ward , rather than a general medical or surgical ward .
23 BEEF up to six years old which has been sold to British shoppers is ‘ 100pc okay ’ , Food Minister Nicholas Soames has insisted .
24 Uranium nuclides 238 U and 235 U decay to stable lead and this decay is the basis for a method applied to molluscs , coral and deep sea sediments which usefully complements 14 C dating because it can be used for materials up to 350,000 years in age .
25 This was first thought of not by Fleischmann and Pons nor by Palmer and Jones , but had been anticipated in Europe , India and the Soviet Union up to 50 years earlier .
26 The move , allowing newly-trained teachers without a degree to teach pupils up to seven years old , will spark a fresh protest from teachers ' unions already boycotting national school tests .
27 Babywear : ( items for babies up to 2 years of age ) .
28 One extra week 's notice has to be given in respect of each full year of employment up to 12 years .
29 REGULAR REPAYMENTS UP TO FIVE YEARS
30 Already as a consequence of the war , half the children up to five years are short for their age due to malnutrition .
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