Example sentences of "by up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of scientists Margaret Williams and Keith Attenborough , at the Open University , and Jeanette Brooks of Bradford University , find that a dense , narrow belt of trees and shrubs can reduce sound level by up to 10 decibels . |
| 2 | Dense , narrow belts of trees , which David Cooke and David Van Haverbeke of the US Forest Service studied , reduce noise levels by 3 to 7 decibels : wider belts can dampen noise by up to 10 decibels . |
| 3 | Tests carried out by the Traffic Research Laboratory suggest that the presence of a dummy vehicle cuts average speeds by up to 10 miles per hour , compared with speeds on roads with no visible police presence . |
| 4 | However , because the twin reactor plant is unlike other magnox stations , the decision is unlikely to affect a move by Nuclear Electric to extend the lifetime of its 30-year-old Bradwell station in Essex by up to 10 years . |
| 5 | The more liberal law replaced one from 1867 which declared abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Some patients may have only one episode of headache while others have several but in some cases these are separated by up to 10 years . |
| 7 | For spot and futures returns over five-minute periods , he found evidence that futures returns led spot returns by up to fifteen minutes . |
| 8 | The American property titles do not detract from the game which can be played by up to fifteen players at the same time . |
| 9 | The American property titles do not detract from the game which can be played by up to fifteen players at the same time . |
| 10 | The American property titles do not detract from the game which can be played by up to fifteen players at the same time . |
| 11 | Since 1947 breeding has also occurred at the following sites : Itchenor , up to 18 nests from 1946 to 1951 ; Chichester gravel pits , one nest in 1960 ; Fynings Moor , Rogate , two nests in 1963 and 1964 ; Beauport Park , Hastings , four or five nests in 1950 ; Great Park Wood , Udimore ( one of the original sites of the present Leasam colony ) , irregularly occupied until 1960 by up to nine pairs ; Nuthurst , a pair in 1973 ; Knepp , eight pairs in 1976 Buxted Park , one pair in 1976 . |
| 12 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 13 | Canvas covered and drawn by up to eight horses , most of them moved along at walking pace , but some lighter vans or " fly wagons " with more regular change of horses were faster . |
| 14 | But the storms smashed away parts of the coastline , pushed back the shore by up to eight feet in places and hurled rocks and boulders on to some of the sites and the path walked by visitors . |
| 15 | The American researchers find that planners can improve the noise reduction of an earth mound ( around 15 decibels ) by up to 5 decibels by planting trees on or around it . |
| 16 | When the temperature changes , the timing period will vary by up to two minutes per degree approximately . |
| 17 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 18 | Fraudulent acts would be tried as misdemeanours and punished by up to two years in prison with or without hard labour . |
| 19 | The worst , the worst possible scenario , would be a need to reduce I think two investigative , if we did n't make any appointments now , a need to reduce er by up to two investigators , should be also including one next year . |
| 20 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 21 | The level of the peat fenland in Cambridgeshire has fallen by up to 4.6 metres in many places since Vermuyden 's initial scheme was completed in the 1650s . |
| 22 | A 1940 War Office file on possible invasion sites states that Bawdsey is a ‘ Category A risk , liable to a seaborne attack , probably a smash-and-grab raid by up to 100 men , launched from a submarine or ship offshore ’ . |
| 23 | The centre will look after internationalisation of Sun software for the European market and will be staffed by up to 100 employees over time . |
| 24 | The centre will look after internationalisation of software for the European market , though not manufacturing , and will be staffed by up to 100 employees over time . |
| 25 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 26 | We already have a second generation of RIP from Adobe which speeds the interpretation by up to four times . |
| 27 | We 're dismayed that Network Southeast is seeking to put up season ticket fares by up to four times the rate of inflation on some lines . |
| 28 | The climbing was staged on a 15 metre high Enterprise wall , which overhung by up to four metres . |
| 29 | Masol was forced to concede and announced his intention to resign on Oct. 17 , the third day of protest marches through Kiev by up to 100,000 students and the sixth day of a city-wide student strike ; he resigned formally on Oct. 23 . |
| 30 | The Intel Math CoProcessor will accelerate the performance of more than four hundred of the most popular software packages by up to five times and virtually all PC 's already have a socket for one of these chips . |