Example sentences of "[noun] take up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sessions take up to 20 children , last for 45 minutes and include songs , games and stories . |
| 2 | A second factor weakening the Heath government 's attempt to dictate to the unions on the basis of its ‘ mandate from the nation ’ was the rather agnostic attitude taken up by large employers . |
| 3 | ‘ This is not just becoming more common , it 's actually expected of older , successful businessmen to take up with younger wives . |
| 4 | It is slow , with the process of exchanging shares for cash taking up to three weeks , and it is cumbersome , with each share sale requiring a whole series of costly paper-based administration procedures . |
| 5 | The discussion is relevant not only to the main topic of this first Part , but to many other issues taken up by later articles in the collection . |
| 6 | Hourly doses at first and then tablets take up to four times a day for two to three days are recommended . |
| 7 | This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully . |
| 8 | As in any full-blown controversy , these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight . |
| 9 | Most children recover within a week or two on the initial stages of the diet , but others take up to three weeks . |
| 10 | Several weighing machines are provided , ranging from a spring balance taking up to 40 lbs to a 5 ton weighing machine . |
| 11 | Surely it had been a joke , prompted by the dreadful heavy seriousness of Dwight Kronweiser and the overreverent attitude to Walter taken up for public reasons by Viola . |
| 12 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |