Example sentences of "[noun] [be] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |
| 2 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
| 3 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 5 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 6 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 7 | The pound is up at two dollars , and up at two marks , seventy eight . |
| 8 | Officials say about 1.4 tonnes of rhino horn stockpiled , but conservationists claim the real figure is up to 10 tonnes . |
| 9 | There were suggestions that the death toll was up to five times higher than officially stated . |
| 10 | That evening , the screen revealed that Node Check was up by 20 points . |
| 11 | * Aluminium levels in some brands of " fresh " and " reconstituted " whole orange juices are up to 10 times higher than levels in local tap water , researchers in Bristol have found . |
| 12 | Adult hadrosaurs were up to 13 metres in length and weighed from 4 to 6 tons , about the same as a large elephant . |
| 13 | At the moment the punishment is up to six months ' imprisonment and/or a £2,000 fine . |
| 14 | For VLCI , the lead was up to 16 minutes , with an average of 0.9 minutes . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend recall that until the Criminal Justice Act 1988 amended the law , the penalty for taking away a vehicle without consent was up to three years ' custodial sentence ? |
| 16 | Motion at the rooftops of two nearby buildings was up to three times that at ground level . |
| 17 | The walls of red sandstone are up to 20 feet thick , surrounding the strong 12th century keep . |
| 18 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 19 | In Kent the coastal water is up to three metres higher than it should be . |
| 20 | The pounds is up at two dollars zero cents , and down at two marks seventy nine . |
| 21 | In some areas the water was up to four feet high in places and for people who did not want to get wet the task of crossing this water was only possible by two ways , the first being to ask to hitch a lift in one of the high performance tractors which were out being a sort of taxi service and the second option was to catch a lift in either of the boats which also appeared to offer their services . |
| 22 | Comparison of present rates of denudation and orogeny allowed Schumm ( 1963a ) to deduce that the production of a planation surface could take between 10 and 110 million years and to show that present rates of orogeny are up to 10 times faster than rates of denudation . |
| 23 | The massive red sandstone walls of this great fortress are up to 20 feet thick , and you can still sense the defensive strength of the 12th century keep . |
| 24 | For the year as a whole , the deficit in sterling terms was up by three quarters from $120.2m to $210.5m . |
| 25 | Is er has what 's his name , the angry man been up to any antics lately ? |
| 26 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 27 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |
| 28 | This year , two further developments are up for environmental honours — Northumberland Village in Whitley Bay and The Paddocks near Hull . |
| 29 | Typical widths are up to 3 metres with a pallet run length of up to 25 metres . |
| 30 | Some Pennine lead flues were up to two miles long . |