Example sentences of "sometimes up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasing amounts of maize germ , sometimes up to 40% , had been found in maize gluten shipments . |
| 2 | Often only after the transaction has been completed will the customer be made aware of the commission involved — sometimes up to 10 per cent of the amount being changed . |
| 3 | Each new compound synthesised was simply given a number , sometimes up to six figures long . |
| 4 | In bright sunshine and intense heat the Dutch Guards , ten abreast , led by their massed drums , deployed out of a narrow valley between the hills and plunged into the river , to wade across , sometimes up to their necks in water , under heavy fire , emerging with ardour undimmed , to storm the enemy breastworks . |
| 5 | They are far easier to transport than Turbo Snails , the popular imported snail for algae control , which has a high mortality rate in transit , sometimes up to 80% dying before reaching their destination . |
| 6 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 7 | Falls to thirty two degrees centigrade or ninety degrees fahrenheit the following can occur and that 's a big drop , that 's a drop of five degrees in this country we 're very used to rapid temperature changes in our environment in the spring you can have frost in the morning and it can get really quite hot by the afternoon , sometimes up to about seventy ca n't it ? |
| 8 | The increased numbers of people were housed by splitting up existing houses so that even modest cottages had sometimes up to twenty people living in them . |
| 9 | The most detailed miniature building was the pyramid headquarters of the Tyrell Corporation , where the manufacture of the replicants as well as the administration of the business and the research takes place This had to be built in two sizes — many models in this and other films have to be built in several sizes , often three or four , and sometimes up to whole or partial full-size , for various kinds of shot or effect . |
| 10 | As when it was eight to nine o'clock at night sometimes up to twelve o'clock , depends on how many was going out . |
| 11 | Underwriting can be expensive , representing sometimes up to two per cent of the issue proceeds , and the underwriting costs normally depend on the length of the time period from the date of the announcement of the rights issue until such time as the offer closes . |
| 12 | Sometimes up to fifty cats are housed here . |
| 13 | Some would argue that the compound rates of return required by venture capitalists — on average 20 per cent to 25 per cent p.a. , but sometimes up to 50 per cent for start ups-are too high , but this is difficult to argue against given the nature of the investments involved and the high degree of risk . |
| 14 | In addition to those caused by serial parts being bound ( discussed above ) , difficulties were created ( a ) by applications for serials or serial parts which consultation of the catalogues would have shown did not form part of the Library 's holdings , ( b ) by the Library 's non-receipt of ‘ current ’ serial parts ( sometimes up to two years after their nominal date of publication ) , and ( c ) by lack of information in the Issue Hall concerning the precise location of particular serial parts . |