Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it .
2 He had a finger in several pies as well ( which Moroccan has n't ? ) but he also had a dream — of doing something with visitors up in the unknown peaks above Taroudant .
3 I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ?
4 The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) .
5 The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres .
6 Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth .
7 British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made .
8 It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge .
9 In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s .
10 A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago .
11 Except in most Western Hemisphere and in some other countries , the mortality of first born infants uniformly exceeds that of births up to the 4–6 orders , and in the majority of countries , the pattern is one of declining infant mortality from first through second and third order births .
12 All assignments up to a hundred miles away from home you will be paid thirty percent .
13 know for all assignments up to a hundred miles away from home .
14 On paths that only he knows , he walks around the small town with the large school , leaves it behind him , and steals past the shouts up to the wooded hills .
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