Example sentences of "[conj] up to [art] [adj] " 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 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 3 | The results of companies acquired or disposed of in the year are dealt with from or up to the effective date of acquisition or disposal respectively . |
| 4 | The National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) which advises the government on radiation hazards , now estimates that up to a hundred people will have died from the fallout . |
| 5 | Perhaps most important is the observation that up to a third of confirmed alcoholics have completely normal liver histology . |
| 6 | Ellstrand estimated that up to a third of all crop varieties are pollinated by insects . |
| 7 | Farms are a soft target for arsonists , according to a report which says that up to a third of farm fires are caused deliberately . |
| 8 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 9 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 10 | Of particular interest in the mouse is the observation that up to the 8th day of gestation the isolated embryonic region will give rise to transplantable tumours when placed beneath the testis or kidney capsule ( 16,17 ) . |
| 11 | In batch mode the user can request that up to the total number of charge codes established in the system are included in the Listing . |
| 12 | The overwhelming evidence from research studies into NHS decision-making , summarised by Harrison , demonstrates that up to the early 1980s the culture of NHS management was shaped by their relatively weak position vis-à-vis doctors ( Harrison 1988 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | whatever you , whatever your grant is whether it 's eight hundred pounds , parents subsidize that up to the two thousand whatever |
| 15 | Time to first print is roughly 45 seconds and multi-copy printing pulls that up to the rated 6 pages per minute claimed for the unit . |
| 16 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 17 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 18 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 19 | A successful takeover would mean the closure of the Morland 's Abingdon brewery and up to a hundred job losses . |
| 20 | The RSPB estimates that , on average , up to 1.5 million waders and up to a million wildfowl spend the winters on the UK coasts , about 80 per cent of them on estuaries . |
| 21 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 22 | ‘ We all have to play with the hand we 're dealt , and up to a certain point we can put the blame on the dealer , but that point passed for Jamie Swift thirty years ago . ’ |
| 23 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 24 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |
| 25 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |
| 26 | Bomber Command was divided into Groups , each of which consisted of a Headquarters and up to a dozen satellite air fields scattered around it in the countryside , from East Anglia up to Yorkshire . |
| 27 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 28 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 29 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 30 | For operations above this and up to the new five metre maximum , the installer simply removes a push-fit restrictor from the appliance . |