Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 2 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 3 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 4 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 5 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 6 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Real changes will show up only in the next ten or 20 years , and even then they may be hard to monitor against the confused background of deteriorating conditions in today 's Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 9 | She then went into the kitchen and wrote a letter to her mother , which she would have ready for poor Monica Waters , who would certainly be turning up here in the next day or two . |
| 10 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 11 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 12 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 13 | It usually starts to improve at ten weeks and clears up completely by the 14th week . |
| 14 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 15 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 16 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 17 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 18 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 19 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 20 | Is there anything coming up locally in the next er |
| 21 | Welcome to Molyneux , Headley , Brian Horton 's with me , the United manager because he was brought up in this part of the world , must be very proud of what you brought up here for the second half Brian , but so disappointed after that first half showing . |
| 22 | OUTPUT inched up again in the fourth quarter of 1992 for the second quarter running , which could be taken to mean the recession has formally ended . |
| 23 | For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously . |
| 24 | Many intellectual strands of the Carolingian Renaissance , subsequently dropped , were taken up again in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 25 | These points are taken up again in the second chapter of Kingman , where it is argued that language ‘ expresses identity , enables co-operation , and confers freedom ’ , and that an understanding of language is vital to children 's intellectual , social , personal and aesthetic development . |
| 26 | But I think they 'll come up well in the next few years . |
| 27 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 28 | This section provides a step-by-step guide for users setting up Offline for the first time . |