Example sentences of "[adv] up to the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
2 | Right up to the hundred . |
3 | The second part , which comes right up to the 1980s , will be international in character and recently acquired works by Fontana , Schnabel , Newman , Kelly , Gordillo and Navarro will be exhibited . |
4 | In the USA the literature of user education indicates that schools were heavily dependent on public libraries for library services in general and for user education in particular , right up to the 1930s . |
5 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
6 | But it also went right up to the fifties . |
7 | But most medical writing — even up to the 1920s — displays unscientific ignorance of sexual matters : dire warnings of physical and mental consequences of ‘ Onanism ’ or ‘ conjugal masturbation ’ ; the consequences to women deprived of ‘ vital fluid ’ being especially severe . |
8 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
9 | The regime of the workhouse was deliberately deterrent , and at least up to the 1890s married couples would be forced to live apart within it . |