Example sentences of "[noun pl] up to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Two passages through the reef , both navigable for vessels up to 5,000 tons .
2 Vessels up to 170 metres long and 30 metres beam can be accommodated .
3 The canal can accommodate vessels up to 1000 tons .
4 Corn was shipped to Newry and Belfast for export to England and vessels up to 60 tons brought back timber , coal and slates .
5 For this reason it can be a major problem in houses calves up to six months of age in some Mediterranean countries .
6 The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old .
7 A NEW Earlycare calf feed range was launched on June 1 to provide farmers with a choice of feeds for calves up to 12 weeks of age .
8 Most of these were large machines with spans up to 110 feet ( 33 metres ) , frequently made to carry tanks and other heavy equipment .
9 Earlier , the EPA had issued regulations allowing public utilities up to 21 years to remove dangerous levels of lead from drinking water .
10 ‘ They went out for walks up to five times a day and he spoiled Champ rotten .
11 It offers designers up to 125 rules per module and up to seven labels per variable and provides waveform display and three-dimensional block diagrams that help simulate applications .
12 Tidal waves up to 15 metres high , triggered by an earthquake beneath the Pacific Ocean , crashed along 227 km of Nicaragua 's low-lying Pacific coast on Sept. 1 , killing more than 200 people , many of them children .
13 Waves up to 40 metres high have been recorded rushing inland , carving out valleys , stripping off deltas and wiping out hills .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
16 In addition , according to a Cabinet decree , private savings up to 10,000 tugriks ( US$1.00=Tug3.3431 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) would be doubled .
17 At one show Kaye replaced 12 strings during one half-hour set and in some songs up to three strings would succumb to the leathering .
18 Exponential smoothing would again normally be used for short term forecasting , for periods up to six months ahead .
19 The warrant can authorise further detention for periods up to 36 hours .
20 Those which normally live on the inner part of the reef flat ( see below ) are more resistant to emersion than those normally under vigorous wave action : some species can survive emersion for periods up to three hours .
21 An aftercast of the winds and study of the Canadian forecast for the period of the flight reveals the presence of a jet stream between 33,000 and 35,000 feet on the latter part of the route with winds up to 134 knots .
22 There was indeed , an air about the place : it was moving out of the west and by the late afternoon , gusting in winds up to 40 miles per hour , would turn over benches .
23 All the hip young things were forced to buy shoes up to two sizes larger than normal .
24 SIGHTERS Up to 5 sighters are allowed
25 The parts promise applies to all parts which keep the vehicle off the road , and on all Peugeot models up to five years old .
26 Drift nets up to 50 kilometres long are used primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon .
27 The technology can connect sites up to 70 miles apart , DEC commented .
28 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 .
29 Did I miss a sign at the airport saying ‘ Welcome to Floridia , home of large meat-eating amphibians up to twelve feet long ’ ? ’
30 Bartlett was particularly concerned with stories , and in his method of serial reproduction people re-told the same story at varying intervals up to several months after it was presented .
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