Example sentences of "up to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movie , which bears no relation ( we hope ) to Cimino 's notorious 1980 megaflop Heaven 's Gate , is the follow up to Desperate Hours , the Cimino remake of a '50s Humphrey Bogart classic which starred Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In addition , pairs usually breed at Bracklesham Bay , Aldingbourne gravel pits , the Crumbles , and Normans Bay , and up to nine pairs do so at the Midrips . |
| 4 | THE United States has denied that American troops or their allies had killed anyone during rioting in the Somali capital , Mogadishu , after reports said up to nine Somalis died . |
| 5 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 6 | Convocation has the power to discuss and state its opinion on any matter affecting the University , including matters referred to it by Court , Council or Senate and it elects up to nine members of the University Court . |
| 7 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 8 | Course manager Jack Bennett said : ‘ We have had up to nine inches of water on the chase course , and half the hurdles course is flooded as well . ’ |
| 9 | The triple and quadruple recombinant baculoviruses proved to be stable for up to nine passages . |
| 10 | But it 's when you 're built up to nine pints it makes you |
| 11 | The Super COMPserver will follow , using up to four 36MHz , 40MHz or 45MHz processors , eight SBus slots , up to nine drive slots ; Super COMPstation will have up to four CPUs . |
| 12 | If space A can extend beyond the excursions of B then the contact state becomes : Up to nine zone states , one being two zeros and one non-zero none being three zeros with one excursion stale . |
| 13 | The special regulations , as approved by the Cabinet on July 1 , would have allowed Sharon to circumvent building and land use approval procedures for three months , during which time 3,000 prefabricated units would have been imported and assembled in up to nine locations around the country . |
| 14 | Each menu can have up to nine selections and each selection can lead to a sub-menu of another nine options . |
| 15 | It used to release captured foxes , give them up to nine minutes start , and chase them through areas designed Old England , Leicestershire , Hill District , Home Circuit . |
| 16 | The average daily temperature is around 86 degrees Farenheit in November reducing to 76 degrees Farenheit in December with up to nine hours of sunshine per day . |
| 17 | Up to nine people can be tested with their results stored for later retrieval , results can be shown in numeric or graph form in a choice of categories . |
| 18 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
| 19 | Hundreds of Afghan political prisoners have reportedly been held without charge or trial for up to nine years in interrogation centres and segregated prison blocks operated by the Ministry of State Security . |
| 20 | Points to watch for : Service contracts lasting up to nine years when the average life of the machine is three-and-a-half . |
| 21 | Changing machines means a new contract , so the company are locked in for a fresh term , again of up to nine years . |
| 22 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 23 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 24 | Wide wales ( up to nine ribs an inch ) are the most casual ; midwales and pinwales ( ten to eighteen ribs an inch ) are slightly more formal , but it depends on your point of view . |
| 25 | The weather , dry weather should slowly spread from the west this afternoon , maximum temperatures up to nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 26 | More than 1,100 Merseysiders travelled on 30-shilling return rail trips from Liverpool to London , allowing up to nine days in the Metropolis . |
| 27 | The other and main hospital providing radiology had a waiting time of up to nine weeks with no prospect of the additional staff needed to reduce this . |
| 28 | You know you 're allowed to go up to nine percent as you say and you just pay as many years as you like . |
| 29 | Some models have up to nine power levels , but the most useful ones for thawing , cooking and heating are : High ( 100 per cent ) , medium-high ( 75 per cent ) , medium ( 50 per cent ) and medium-low ( 30 per cent ) . |
| 30 | According to BAAF 's evidence , when mothers smoke up to nine cigarettes daily , the risk of cot death is doubled . |