Example sentences of "can [be] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |
| 2 | The suspension , springs and dampers have to be robust to cope with the greater weight of the diesel engine , which can be up to 250lb , and the greater mileage that a diesel might be expected to cover . |
| 3 | In the Indian Ocean fish are caught in gill nets , which can be up to 50 k long , and are made of synthetic fibres . |
| 4 | With larger amounts you will have a choice of fixed or floating rates , which you can switch between to suit your development , while your repayment period can be up to 20 years . |
| 5 | 1 A filename can be up to 8 characters long ; 2 A filename may not contain spaces and most punctuation marks , except hyphens , round brackets and a few others ; 3 A filename may be typed in using either lower or upper case letters ; 4 Every file on the same disk must have a different filename ; 5 Every file , wherever it is stored , should have a different filename . |
| 6 | However it can be up to 1000 times larger if the host is amorphous , or non crystalline . |
| 7 | We gain that impression because the work the USSR reports can be up to 30 years old at its first publication . |
| 8 | They can be up to 200ft ( 60m ) in diameter and are mostly constructed of stones , with a rim , and spokes radiating out from a central cairn . |
| 9 | This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills . |
| 10 | There prices can be up to £1,000 . |
| 11 | By the time some pupils reach secondary school they can be up to a year behind classmates who have had the proper amount of teaching , Government insiders claim . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Their expenses can be up to £126 a day , plus the cost of first-class travel from their home . |
| 14 | Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride . |
| 15 | This can be up to 120 years , but in the most common bamboo , the flowering occurs every 70 years . |
| 16 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 17 | The 7490E can support transfer rates of 9M-bytes per second , up to 128 logical paths and can be up to 14 miles from the CPU via Escon channels . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 20 | ‘ The benefit of new communications media and electronic data processing , shows that the Church can be up to date too ’ said Christian Schwarz-Schilling , the German Minister for Postal Services , at Credo-Bit ‘ 92 . |
| 21 | Term of loans from the IDA are more favourable than those demanded by the IBRD and can be up to fifty years with repayments deferred for the first ten years , with no interest charges . |
| 22 | This can be up to six months . |
| 23 | But in developing societies , as in Victorian times , the difference in death-rates can be up to threefold ( Knodel and van de Walle 1967 ) . |
| 24 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 25 | The Fish Louse ( Argulus ) can be up to 10mm across and looks like a tiny flatfish . |
| 26 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , is currently receiving more Government support in order to attempt to prevent the increase in accidents , although the time between factory visits can be up to 5 years . |
| 30 | Their heads can be up to three metres long , equipped with curving teeth . |