Example sentences of "up by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 2 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 3 | The largest percentage increase , however , was recorded by the very elderly — the survivors of the large birth cohorts dating from the early years of this century — with the number of people aged 75 and over up by 46 per cent on their 1971 level . |
| 4 | Visitors figures for the Lady Lever Art Gallery were up by 20,000 . |
| 5 | He picked it up by one long back leg . |
| 6 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 7 | Some people in ICI still come up by one functional channel and reach the top , but most emerging people get the management development treatment rather like I did . |
| 8 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 9 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 10 | It has one very curious feature ; it was drawn up by one ‘ Henry Balfour , priest of Dunkeld diocese , notary public by apostolic authority ’ , who was in fact no notary at all , and this did give ground for doubt . |
| 11 | Every surfer who is swallowed up by one of the blue-ribbed behemoths of Pipeline re-enacts the legend of Jonah and the Whale . |
| 12 | Four years in the making , the three-day event had itself been organised by a team of 15 people based in the US , Hong Kong , South Africa , Brussels , Leeds and Manchester , all communicating by electronic mail ( so-called ‘ e-mail ’ , in which messages typed into a personal computer are sent by telephone line to a big , central computer that stores them until they are called up by one or more addressees using their own computers ) . |
| 13 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 14 | Last week 's meeting of the borough 's policy and finance committee was all but devoid of dissenting voices , a mood summed up by one Labour councillor afterwards : ‘ What 's the point of arguing ? |
| 15 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 16 | I 'll have you picked up by one of our limos . |
| 17 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 18 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 19 | The character of the Messiah is summed up by one historian of the period as : |
| 20 | The discussion around the table often generates even better feature ideas which can be taken up by one of the journalists present . |
| 21 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 22 | His lower half was engulfed in army-issue shorts held up by one of Francis 's old school ties . |
| 23 | She toured Britain and West Europe , she broadcast constantly — but she preferred recitals to the teamwork of symphonies , so never got taken up by one conductor , and in the long run that can be very important . |
| 24 | Fenniway crossed through again into the boarding annexe , and sent a message up by one of the constables helping the technicians on the stairs . |
| 25 | on that of 10 years ago , investment up by one third , productivity up by more than one half and manufactured exports up by almost three quarters . |
| 26 | The winning pair , Jimmy Douglas and Jim Cunningham , beat the runners up by one shot in the final . |
| 27 | Set up by one of Britain 's top tennis players , Sarah Loosemore , it 's out to redress a sporting imbalance . |
| 28 | A collection of vintage farm machinery built up by one man over thirty years is to be auctioned off tomorrow.The field full of equipment includes tractors shipped over from America in the nineteen forties to help the British war effort.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 29 | It is hoped the fight sill still be filmed and be picked up by one of the other satellite companies . |
| 30 | The Halifax says that in September the average price of a house in this country was up by one percent on the same time last year . |