Example sentences of "up to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 2 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 3 | Up to a million Armenians , by late February , were reported to be demonstrating daily in the city 's Opera Square . |
| 4 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 5 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 6 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 7 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 8 | IXI believes other hardware vendors could be drawn into the initiative as many spend up to a million dollars maintaining their separate Motif developments . |
| 9 | During the lifetime of the roof they will have to deal with up to a million gallons of water and will be subjected to the sun 's ultra-violet rays , frost , snow and wind . |
| 10 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 11 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 12 | In the garden of his old home , he recorded noise up to a hundred decibels from the motorway . |
| 13 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 14 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 15 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 16 | But er what we say is that we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles away from home |
| 17 | Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent . |
| 18 | All assignments up to a hundred miles away from home you will be paid thirty percent . |
| 19 | know for all assignments up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 20 | well erm we we pay thirty percent commission up to a hundred miles away from home . |
| 21 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 22 | Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort . |
| 23 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 24 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 25 | Up to a hundred jobs are to go at the Nationwide Building Society . |
| 26 | On the information that I have , densities range quite considerably , from as low as ten workers per hectare up to a hundred workers per hectare , but on average somewhere around thirty four , forty three could be taken if one wished to choose an average . |
| 27 | Oxford currently houses up to a 190 prisoners , many on remand . |
| 28 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 29 | Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds . |
| 30 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |