Example sentences of "[pron] could [be] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such caverns are available in Kent , Wiltshire , Cleveland , Humberside and Lincolnshire , The UKAEA 's report proposes that special trains with 10–12 wagons , each loaded with flasks containing drums of waste will travel on public railways between the Sellafield reprocessing plant and the waste dumps , which could be up to 400 km away . |
| 2 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 3 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 4 | Yet debt owed by customers , which could be up to 40 per cent of their assets , is so often left unprotected . ’ |
| 5 | An active group of villagers discovered that there could be up to eighty of these heavy loads . |
| 6 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 7 | It is estimated that the basin would have become no deeper than about 5 km , and as today Mare Imbrium is of negligible depth there could be up to about 5 km of infill . |
| 8 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 9 | A recent Department of the Environment report suggested that there could be up to 5,000 old gas works sites throughout the country . |
| 10 | As many as 64 MPs have lined up to criticise his management style and union leaders say there could be up to 6,000 job losses at the corporation , which employs about 20,000 people . |
| 11 | First of all , if the records are not up to date — and it is difficult to see how they could be up to date during high level activity — the source of the information is missing . |
| 12 | It is not known exactly how many pregnant women in the UK catch toxoplasmosis but it could be up to 1,400 cases each year . |
| 13 | Experts warned last night that it could be up to a year before he is returned to Jersey . |
| 14 | Brian Gunn , Bull 's business manager for systems integration in Livingston , Scotland , says it could be up to two years before IBM brings out its AIX offering , by which time Unikix will be far ahead in terms of added value . |
| 15 | Group pick up is very handy , if you 're with a large bunch of people in a large office , you can get together and say , ‘ Right , why do n't we answer everybody 's telephones if they 're not there , let's not just leave them ringing ’ , Okay , so you get together and you ask me and say , ‘ Right , this , this , this , this extension ’ , it could be up to 40 extensions , ‘ We all want to be in the same group pick up ’ , so what happens is the phone rings , but another one rings . |