Example sentences of "[pron] can be [adv] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 2 | Ti'Ko claim that this significantly increases graphics handling speeds which can be up to 18 times faster than the conventional 486 super VGA configuration . |
| 3 | The logical or physical name for the storage directory , which can be up to 80 characters long . |
| 4 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 5 | Which can be up to ten years , providing that does n't take your service over forty years at the age of sixty or over what you would have attained had you remained in service until the age of sixty five . |
| 6 | This column allows a comment to be provided giving a reason for the rejection , which can be up to 48 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 7 | This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length . |
| 8 | The nets , which can be up to 40 miles across , have also been blamed for snaring and killing thousands of sea birds , non-commercial fish and marine mammals . |
| 9 | In the Indian Ocean fish are caught in gill nets , which can be up to 50 k long , and are made of synthetic fibres . |
| 10 | In Open events there can be up to 36 fences — a combination of natural hazards such as water , rails and ditches of up to four feet six inches high ; hedges of up to six feet high and specially built fences like steps and tyres . |
| 11 | At the height of the summer season there can be up to 42,000 people soaking up the sun in Benidorm , so the litter problem can be awesome . |
| 12 | It can be up to 16 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 13 | It can be up to 16 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 14 | It can be up to four lines long , each with 28 printing characters including spaces . |
| 15 | It can be up to four lines long , each with 28 printing characters including spaces . |
| 16 | It can be up to 15 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 17 | It can be up to 15 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 18 | However it can be up to 1000 times larger if the host is amorphous , or non crystalline . |