Sentence examples for trapping up to from inspiring English sources

A1 Earthquake in Turkey A strong earthquake killed at least 30 people in eastern Turkey and toppled a school dormitory, trapping up to 200 students under debris.

A mudslide swept over a Greek Orthodox youth camp on Thursday, trapping up to 30 people as heavy rains caused flooding in areas ravaged by deadly wildfires last month, the authorities said.

Validation of this respirometer system indicated stoichiometric CO2 trapping up to a maximum of 400 μmol of CO2 (in a single trap).

Reports that Islamic militants have trapped up to 40,000 members of Iraq's minority communities have spurred the US into considering a military-led humanitarian action.

Zeiderman (2009) said she was "trapped up to her neck", while Barragán (1987) said that she was trapped up to her waist.

In the season, from October to mid-February, they will shoot or trap up to 250,000 sables, along with millions of squirrel, mink and a host of other fur-bearing species.

The biochip can efficiently trap up to 7500 cells, maintaining a high trapping efficiency even when the number of cells is extremely low (∼200 cells).

Previous studies have shown that PPS can trap up to 98.7% of applied hydrocarbons, but results of this study show that application of glyphosate-containing herbicides affected this capability as 15%, 9% and 5% of added hydrocarbons were released by high (7200 mg L−1), medium (720 mg L−1) and low (72 mg L−1) glyphosate-containing herbicides concentrations respectively.

There is a chemical used in making styrofoam called hydrofluorocarbons that can trap up to 1,000 times more heat than CO2.

Plotting the number of times an animal was captured against that animal's total number of trap locales showed that most animals were trapped at up to 4 trap locales (see Additional file 2: Figure S2a for this plot).

Mr Bowers died when an unstable stack of stringers collapsed as he made his way down a designated safe walkway, trapping him up to his chest and crushing him, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson had said.