Example sentences of "[noun pl] of up " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Sky losses of up to A$250m ( £126.3m ) , analysts are forecasting net profits for the year to June 1990 of about A$370m , which compares with a reported A$464m for 1989 , excluding foreign exchange dealings . |
| 2 | But 11,000 people who invested in the Gibraltar-based Barlow Clowes International , and who faced losses of up to £100 million , have yet to receive anything . |
| 3 | It may even win Mr Rowland backing within the market and among outside names ( the individuals who provide Lloyd 's capital ) , though they will be dismayed by his forecasts of losses of up to £2.8 billion ( $1.4 billion ) for 1990 and over £1 billion for 1991 . |
| 4 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is expected to report operating losses of up to $245m for 1992 in its end of year figures due over the next couple of months , according to Italian press reports . |
| 5 | In December 1989 a UK government report severely criticized senior civil servants in the Falkland Islands for their role in Seamount Ltd , a fishing company whose collapse through mismanagement contributed to losses of up to £30,000,000 of UK taxpayers ' money [ see p. 37001 ] . |
| 6 | On Dec. 19 , 1989 , Ridley announced the publication of the report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration ( the Ombudsman Sir Anthony Barrowclough ) on the DTI 's handling of the affairs of the Barlow Clowes investment management group and the collapse of companies within the group , whose investors faced reported losses of up to £190,000,000 . |
| 7 | In submissions to the Department of the Environment and the Office of Water Services , the industry regulator , the council opposes water metering , which carries serious health consequences , and says attention should be paid to leaking mains , responsible for water losses of up to 38 per cent in some areas . |
| 8 | The unions involved , the Civil and Public Servants Association and the National Union of Civil and Public Servants , claim that the in-house bids involve jobs losses of up to 50pc as well . |
| 9 | The King 's is currently facing losses of up to £200,000 after audience figures fell by about 15 per cent during the last financial year . |
| 10 | Five quayside cranes of up to 10 tonne capacity serve the berth . |
| 11 | The wind and rain ceased over the next two days , but giant waves of up to fifteen feet continued to batter the shoreline , flooding and wrecking many homes . |
| 12 | This beam is then supported by concrete pillars , with spans of up to 50 metres . |
| 13 | In the following year the Channel Bridge Study Group , including representatives of the British and French steel industries , produced a road/rail bridge design consisting of 140 spans of up to 1,447 feet in length . |
| 14 | Larger parties of up to 100 persons will be considered for the 11.00 p.m. sitting . |
| 15 | Almost certainly it has mainly affected wintering birds rather than passage migrants , particularly in Chichester Harbour , where parties of up to 10–15 once wintered fairly frequently . |
| 16 | In addition feeding parties of up to 80 birds were seen offshore , mainly in early autumn , and 800 flew west off Beachy Head on 18 September 1976 , the largest movement yet seen off Sussex . |
| 17 | Parties of up to 25 are not uncommon . |
| 18 | Numbers vary but a total of 40 is the highest recorded in recent springs ; parties of up to 10 together are sometimes seen . |
| 19 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 20 | Single birds are most usual , but parties of up to five occur and one of nine was seen in Chichester Harbour on 26 January 1958 . |
| 21 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 22 | The highest numbers were recorded in Sussex , where about 300 , possibly more , were seen in parties of up to 100 birds . |
| 23 | The species was more frequent in the 19th century , when extreme dates were 22 March and 11 November , and parties of up to 20 or more were seen . |
| 24 | Parties of up to 23 have been involved and , in general Avocets , are now likely to be met in small parties quite as often as singly in the county . |
| 25 | Elsewhere single birds or parties of up to five are the general rule , and the species is regularly recorded along the whole coast , and at most of the main areas of gravel pits and the reservoirs during migration . |
| 26 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 27 | Eight further schools would be selected as minor project schools , each eligible for funds of up to £2,000 for the improvement and replacement of book stock … |
| 28 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 29 | The banking reforms would end " pass through " coverage , which had allowed banks to raise large sums from institutional investors on a fully insured basis , and would eliminate brokered insured deposits , which had allowed brokers to deposit funds of up to $100,000 on behalf of wealthy clients in a variety of banks to be used for secured investment at no personal risk . |
| 30 | More recently the largest concentrations noted there were about 200 on 4 December 1967 , and 30 December 1968 , and concentrations of up to 150 have been seen off the coast between Brighton and Rottingdean . |