Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grampian has drawn up six programmes which they hope will qualify for EC aid , ranging from re-training schemes , tourism development in upland areas and harbour towns , and transport and communications improvements . |
| 2 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 3 | Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out . |
| 4 | Despite Graham 's protestations , Arsenal have picked up 23 bookings already this season and a growing injury list has further blighted the Gunners ' bid for a third championship triumph in five seasons . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 6 | Frank had signed up Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford — from the original stage show — and Phil Silvers . |
| 7 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 8 | In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Xhibition has rounded up three keynotes : DEC 's vice president of research Sam Fuller will be speaking on ‘ Unix and Microsoft Windows NT , Friends or Foes ? ; ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Xhibition has rounded up three keynote speakers : DEC 's vice-president of research Sam Fuller will speak on ‘ Unix and Microsoft Windows NT , Friends or Foes ? ; ’ |
| 11 | Considering his band had clocked up four months on a promotional treadmill that had become steeper and faster the more ‘ Nevermind ’ sold , he looked in pretty good shape . |
| 12 | Every year the New York New Music Seminar seems to throw up one track which first flattens the delegates revelling at the local hot-spots , then sends the record companies into chequebook-brandishing overdrive . |
| 13 | Nearly-legendary Darlington saxophonist Steve Bone and his new band the Jazz Providers have lined up two residencies . |
| 14 | Also at Carn Vellan , Rowland Edwards has put up two routes in a more traditional vein , both un-named . |
| 15 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 16 | Ludens had brought up two suitcases in the lift . |
| 17 | FLINTSHIRE team manager Tudor Jones has called up six Northop Hall players in a bold bid to topple old foes Denbighshire in today 's crunch clash in the Welsh Cricket Association 's Ansells Cup at Brymbo . |
| 18 | The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder : Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody . |
| 19 | Charges have gone up 17 times under the Government . |
| 20 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 21 | Davies has snapped up three players from neighbours Holywell Town , goalkeeper David Edwards , centre back Alex Goss and midfielder Darren Horne who had a previous spell with Flint . |
| 22 | United Distillers has set up two distribution networks in South East Asia through joint venture companies : one with Moët Hennessy , called Riche Monde , and the other with Moët Hennessy and Inchcape , called Caldbecks . |
| 23 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |
| 24 | so the staff use that and the children had to go up six flights of stairs |
| 25 | The county have signed up four youngsters for next season , including two local 18-year-olds - all-rounder John Hughes and batsman Russell Warren — on summer contracts . |
| 26 | As the course year drew to a close , management development courses have clocked up 477 trainee days . |
| 27 | did he say B T had gone up twenty P this morning ? |
| 28 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 29 | So far the survey has picked up 20 galaxies ; it should eventually find several thousand . |
| 30 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |