Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break . |
2 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
3 | JOHN Major and Norman Lamont have come up with a multi-billion pound recovery package for the economy — without consulting the Cabinet . |
4 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
5 | Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years . |
6 | As we approach the site , coming off the freeway , we get caught up in a four mile tailback , as there 's only one entrance to the fairground . |
7 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
8 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
9 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
10 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
11 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
12 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
13 | They came up with a 230 horse power sports cruiser happy to have me aboard . |
14 | Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note . |
15 | The top drape is made up from a 150 cm square of fabric cut across diagonally from corner to corner to make two triangular shapes . |
16 | In Brockton , he turned up with a dozen fellow-students to revitalise local politics from the bottom up . |
17 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
18 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
19 | Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate . |
20 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
21 | The Wrexham-based challengers doubled up with an 8–2 triumph at Beaumaris to inflict the first home defeat of the season on their Anglesey hosts . |
22 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
23 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
24 | They followed up with a 63–8 annihilation of viables and then beat Tadley 41–33 . |
25 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
26 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
27 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
28 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
29 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
30 | Now , obviously if it is a erm an old vehicle then obviously the cover is restricted , but normally if it 's below five years or sixty thousand they can obtain up to a thousand pound parts and labour . |