Example sentences of "long [coord] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set amidst panoramic views of snow-capped mountains of up to 11,000 feet , the lake is one of earth 's outstanding features ; 400 miles long and up to 50 miles wide , its dazzling blue , crystal clear water is over a mile deep in places and is reckoned to be one fifth of the world 's supply of fresh water . |
| 2 | The entire leaf is about 14ins ( 36cms ) long and up to ; 2ins ( 6cms ) wide . |
| 3 | They are 4–8ins ( 10–20cms ) long and up to 2ins ( 6cms ) wide , and slightly corrugated or ridgy . |
| 4 | The leaf is oval or egg-shaped , between 2–3ins ( 6–7½cms ) long and up to 2ins ( 6cms ) wide . |
| 5 | Triangular or even heart-shaped leaves are deep to emerald green and up to 3½ins ( 9cms ) long and up to l½ins ( 4cms ) wide . |
| 6 | The leaves are lanceolate , up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and up to 1 inch ( 2½cms ) wide . |
| 7 | Massive bedded sulphides and disseminated ‘ feeder ’ veins and stockwork mineralisation occur over a zone 2km long and up to 500m wide . |
| 8 | Barrier reefs may not only lie some distance off major land masses , as shown in Fig.8.33 and exemplified in the Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast which is almost 2000 km ( 1250 miles ) long and up to 1000 m ( 1000 yards or more ) wide , but may also completely encircle non-coral islands or groups of non-coral islands , one of the best examples of which is the Truk group in the Caroline Islands ( Fig. 8.34 ) . |
| 9 | One hundred and forty kilometres long and up to eight hundred and fifty metres wide , the no man 's land between the east and west sides of the Berlin wall is now available for development . |