Example sentences of "up to [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That adds up to over two weeks a year , or two years of your life . |
| 2 | At the higher levels , humans in the prime of life can hear noises up to about 20,000 cycles per second . |
| 3 | The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards . |
| 4 | Yes up to about four months ago . |
| 5 | The kite might start to climb , then perform a curving sweep up to about 45 degrees , execute a beautiful turn and point head downwards until it crashes into the ground . |
| 6 | And with the wine that brings it up to about eight pounds . |
| 7 | Other imported breeds , including Danish Red , Red-and-White Friesian , etc. , add up to about 28,000 cows with an average milk yield of 6,440kg at 4.25 per cent butterfat . |
| 8 | Thus the effective legitimate target range f the beamer appears to have been raised by anything up to about two feet depending on how tall your are . |
| 9 | That would put the price of a pint up to about two pounds fifty . |
| 10 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
| 11 | Eventually , he built production up to about 3,000 metres a day . |
| 12 | The first , the general sprinkler code , ‘ Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems ’ , N.F.P.A. number 13 , deals with storage of goods up to about 4 metres in height . |
| 13 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 14 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 15 | Depending on slide size , up to about 24 slices can be flattened in one timed half hour run . |
| 16 | The estimated reservation wages increase with age up to about 35 years and then decrease with the men aged over 55 , with estimated reservation wages for both periods which are lower than for teenage men . |
| 17 | For larger tables — up to about 1000 keys — a more approximate but less time-consuming method due to Sprugnoli can be used . |
| 18 | Aplysia can grow up to about 30 centimetres long and weigh a couple of kilos , and of the several species the biggest and experimentally most popular ( I do n't say the best ) comes from California — Aplysia californica . |
| 19 | Up to about twenty years ago , it was thought that protons and neutrons were " elementary " particles , but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles . |
| 20 | Close to , she saw that the building had a brick base , up to about three feet , and a metal framework above it . |
| 21 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |
| 22 | Rats tested up to about 12 hours later do less and less well . |
| 23 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 24 | Parties are usually of up to about 50 birds , but flocks of up to 150 are not rare ; the largest flock in recent years was of c. 400 birds in the Sidlesham area in early 1963 . |
| 25 | Summering flocks of up to about 50 birds are probably regular , and about 3,000 summered in Rye Bay in 1956 . |
| 26 | A metabolite is a small ‘ organic ’ ( that is , carbon-containing ) molecule , with up to about 50 atoms . |
| 27 | The essential appeal in ‘ Sliver ’ is the voyeurism of apartment building owner Zeke Hawkins ( William Baldwin ) who has set up an elaborate video system to monitor what his tenants get up to behind closed doors . |
| 28 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 29 | Postman was looked up to in those days , he was an educated man . |
| 30 | RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER CAMPERS : Lenny is the leader of the cabin and is looked up to by all members of the cabin . |