Example sentences of "anything up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 2 | Potential carers will naturally expect to be thoroughly vetted and would be required to undertake an eight-week training course before being entrusted with the care of a child , which could take anything up to six months . |
| 3 | because it can last for anything up to six months . |
| 4 | However , given a reasonable state of preservation , you should come to no harm at Scourie ; and most days will see you happily tramping anything up to six miles , fishing perhaps a dozen different waters along the way , with golden eagle , red deer and curlew for company . |
| 5 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 6 | ‘ The modifications that are being made to it will probably increase that range by anything up to thirty miles . ’ |
| 7 | They could therefore spend a considerable period of time in the towers , in full uniform , in temperatures of anything up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit , or more . |
| 8 | Astonishingly ornate decorations which were set on top of the yokes of working oxen , for example , in the form of painted wooden ‘ towers ’ anything up to two feet high , partly hollowed out and fitted with small bells . |
| 9 | There were no aircraft available for air drops at that stage of the war in the desert , which was a pity when one bears in mind that only two years later SAS parties operated in France for anything up to two months behind enemy lines , totally reliant on parachuted stores . |
| 10 | The stilt-like wooden pillars lifted the single-storeyed living space anything up to twelve feet off the ground , and the open space underneath , which allowed breezes to flow beneath the house to keep it cool , was usually enclosed with light wooden laticework . |
| 11 | The sows commence pregnancy after a delayed implantation of fertilised eggs of anything up to nine months . |
| 12 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 13 | You should allow anything up to four hours for the assembly , which gives you plenty of time to make sure that you understand each step fully . |
| 14 | To Professor Radzinowicz and Barbara Wootton , both strong characters unaccustomed to taking no for an answer , any thorough re-examination of the concepts and purposes underlying the punishment and treatment of offenders in the light of modern knowledge of crime and its causes was worthless without a programme of research , including fieldwork by qualified staff , taking anything up to four years to complete . |
| 15 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 16 | This was at a time when the resistance of Japan was expected to continue for anything up to eighteen months later . |
| 17 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 18 | This can take anything up to 10 days . |
| 19 | But we 've er , other projects and er , things going on , we are dealing with like , anything up to sixteen weeks ahead of it . |
| 20 | Andesites , by contrast , form massive flows which may be anything up to 500 metres thick . |
| 21 | The Commission can suspend or disbar any person from the securities industry ; require disgorgement of profits ; and impose penalties of anything up to three times the illicit gains made on the insider trades . |
| 22 | Some residents of the countryside , particularly younger sons , moved to urban areas on a permanent basis , but many were employed as dekasegi workers , away for anything up to three years or more . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ It means the Town Hall will be unavailable to the people for anything up to three years . |
| 24 | Now bear in mind that you may be up anything up to three months in a condition where you 're completely and totally unable to move a muscle for yourself . |
| 25 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 26 | If the cat gets too close , ducks may peek anything up to 35 times per minute . |
| 27 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 28 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 29 | Whilst Jean was there , the women were spending anything up to twenty-three hours a day locked in their cells . |
| 30 | This is sunk to a depth of anything up to forty feet , on a lead-core line , and towed behind a slowly moving boat , fingers crossed . |