Example sentences of "up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 2 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 3 | Official figures suggest that ACET provided care at home for up to one in four of all those who died of AIDS in the UK last year . |
| 4 | So one person could receive sexually-transmitted diseases ( STDs ) from up to 40,000 other people ! |
| 5 | You lose weight , you feel very weak , and pass motions up to 10 times a day . |
| 6 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 7 | By the year 2000 the World Health Organisation estimates that up to 40 million people will be infected with HIV . |
| 8 | ACET educators see up to 4,000 pupils a month in face-to-face school presentations . |
| 9 | For example the numbers needing opiates to control pain are rising and up to one in five will need special battery-operated syringe pumps to deliver medication in the home . |
| 10 | In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture . |
| 11 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 12 | Hundreds of Afghan political prisoners have reportedly been held without charge or trial for up to nine years in interrogation centres and segregated prison blocks operated by the Ministry of State Security . |
| 13 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 14 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 15 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 16 | Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah 's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years . |
| 17 | Amnesty also has its own checks which ensure that all its major reports are passed through several levels of approvals , often up to the Secretary General himself . |
| 18 | It is a separate tragedy altogether that , in a country where there is no nation health service , anything up to three million dollars can be spent killing someone . |
| 19 | Reynolds was a notable conversationalist , well able to stand up to his friends , who included Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke . |
| 20 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 21 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 22 | Nearly all the stone steps in the first flight up to the half-landing were broken , with jagged edges where bits of tread had fallen away . |
| 23 | The refugee from Glasgow saw through , and stood up to , some famous middle-class progressives , was asked to spy on student Communists , was asked , by a girl at a party , to ‘ do something ! |
| 24 | Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted . |
| 25 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
| 26 | These remarks concerning If this is a man do not describe the kind of book which runs easily to sequels , and which is easy to live up to . |
| 27 | Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day . |
| 28 | The average age of entry for the diploma course is between 18 and 20 , though some schools accept entrants as young as 17 , others students up to 30 : age between these limits is not likely to be a problem provided the candidate shows talent , flexibility and motivation . |
| 29 | Remember that there may be some twelve to eighteen places at any one of the drama schools , and the number of auditions may number up to fifteen hundred for the leading schools . |
| 30 | He hauled me up to my tutor , who said , do you intend to marry the girl ? |