Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? ; ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? ; ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder : Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody . |
| 9 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 12 | So far the survey has picked up 20 galaxies ; it should eventually find several thousand . |
| 13 | 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 . |