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Cavid Hummatov Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

get up to x years in prison

I'd like to know what does this phrase exactly mean. Does this have anything to do with the idiom "get up to" or the whole phrase entirely means "to be sentenced to x years in prison?
  

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Cavid Hummatov Does this have anything to do with the idiom "get up to" No. Cavid Hummatov the whole phrase entirely means "to be sentenced to x years in prison? Basically, yes.

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  • Cavid Hummatov Does this have anything to do with the idiom "get up to" No.
  • Cavid Hummatov the whole phrase entirely means "to be sentenced to x years in prison?
  • Basically, yes.
  • There could be a range of prison time associated with a particular crime, for example a minimum of five years and a maximum of ten years.
  • Here we could say, for example, "If Bob is convicted, he could get up to ten years in prison".
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Cavid HummatovDoes this have anything to do with the idiom "get up to"
No.
Cavid Hummatovthe whole phrase entirely means "to be sentenced to x years in prison?
Basically, yes. There could be a range of prison time associated with a particular crime, for example a minimum of five years and a maximum of ten years. Here we coul
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Cavid Hummatov Does this have anything to do with the idiom "get up to"
No,

He will get up to ten years in prison - He will receive a prison sentence. He will be sentenced to spend a maximum of ten years in prison.
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aaa that is, " up to" should be understood as "as many as" and "get " separately "receive". Penny dropped !
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