Example sentences of "be up [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable …
2 There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks .
3 After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions .
4 Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty .
5 right erm could I just check something else which was not mentioned er is that is it when you have opened these two Homeworks shops that you 'll be up to a hundred and seventy eight
6 At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound .
7 A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them .
8 If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’
9 It should be up on the 800 server series in the third quarter .
10 I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife
11 We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
12 They reckon it 's up to a million now . ’
13 It 's up to every one of us to Lend a Hand and find it .
14 ‘ But at the end of the day it 's up to the 100,000 citizens of Derry to act as sales people for their city . ’
15 In reality , the choice is up to the five countries with permanent seats on the Security Council — America , Britain , China , France and the Soviet Union .
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