Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France 's nuclear weapons swallow up almost a third of defence spending . |
| 2 | Not until the shock of the Crimean invasion did Ivan abolish the oprichnina , and intermittent terror continued for the rest of his reign , swallowing up not a few of the opochniks themselves . |
| 3 | One study estimates that the headquarters and related functions of big American companies gobble up almost a fifth of their annual profits . |
| 4 | The development of new levels or stopes , which are either simply for exploration or which will not produce any ore for perhaps three years , can eat up about a third of a mine 's operating costs . |
| 5 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 6 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 7 | But college life is no picnic , admit Barclays , who sign up nearly a third of students . |
| 8 | With your inbuilt tachometer you 've no doubt clocked up quite a few since Seville . ’ |