Example sentences of "up in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the proof of the pudding was that y you know you finished up in twelve minutes and arguably you have three minutes could have been spent floating around just chatting about this , that and the other . |
| 2 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 3 | For the first ten years of its existence AEA drove forward all aspect of nuclear power in the UK , and when the Windscale AGR was started up in 1962 it was at the forefront of reactor design . |
| 4 | It must also seek the permission of the Charity Commissioners , because of a scheme set up in 1986 under which the Trust must not hold less than 50 per cent of the voting rights of Wellcome . |
| 5 | A basic training working party was set up in 1986 with the task of designing a national basic training common core . |
| 6 | The Ozone Trends Panel , a working party of scientists set up in 1986 by NASA , has calculated a three per cent depletion in stratospheric ozone on a global level since 1969 . |
| 7 | The report had been prepared by a working party set up in 1986 by the House of Bishops and chaired by Reverend June Osborne . |
| 8 | Adrian , 33 , who started up in 1986 , says : ‘ The Government do not appreciate what is happening in the High Street to small independent businesses . |
| 9 | The creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve was set up in 1986 to protect this valuable area around the peak of Creag Meagaidh in the Monadhliath mountains . |
| 10 | The iron ore deposits in the Nimba mountains on the border with Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia , which had a 65-70 per cent iron content , were finally to be opened up to exploitation , it was announced in December 1989 [ see p. 35436 for setting up in 1986 of iron ore project ] . |
| 11 | The dispute over the cluster of potentially oil-rich islands had flared up in 1986 [ see p. 34766 ] when Qatar contested a 1939 decision by the United Kingdom , then the colonial power , to award the islands to Bahrain . |
| 12 | In the area of Business Administration the SVQs at levels I and II are based on standards of competence identified as appropriate to office workers by the Administrative , Business and Commercial Training Group ( ABCTG ) , a cross sectoral Lead Body set up in 1986 . |
| 13 | The group was set up in 1986 after a proposal at one of the regular — though often far apart — meetings of the four main Church leaders by Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop Robin Eames , and seconded by the late Catholic Primate Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich . |
| 14 | Members of the Skerne Park Community Action Group are to receive £2,000 from the TSB Foundation a charitable group set up in 1986 to encourage good causes . |
| 15 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 16 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 17 | We 'll be up in five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | They now both work about 35–40 chargeable hours a week , with Roland notching this up in five days and Alison four — ‘ Fridays are sacrosanct , ’ she says . |
| 19 | Sparta 'll be coming up in five minutes exactly . ’ |
| 20 | If you 're stupid enough to try , you 'll be eaten up in five seconds . ’ |
| 21 | Up in five minutes , Antoinette called after them . |
| 22 | ‘ My view of the Common market can be summed up in four words and three of them are … the Common Market . ’ |
| 23 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 24 | She put the inner up in four minutes , not bad at all — and she had n't seen the tent before . |
| 25 | In 24 hour pH recording the total reflux time was abnormal at follow up in four of 14 patients , including three with defective fundic wrap ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 26 | It also showed up in 69 per cent of the children who interpreted both more and less correctly . |
| 27 | Parish councils were set up in 1894 and superseded parish vestries , which had in turn supplanted manor courts . |
| 28 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 29 | In Manchester , for example , a permanent Tactical Aid Group of seventy-four specially trained officers was set up in 1976 . |
| 30 | As early as 1968 steps were being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to conserve two of them ( the Bazadais and the Aubrac ) , while a national commission was set up in 1976 to consider the need for wider conservation measures . |