Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [n mass] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 2 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 3 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 4 | Just because you 've run up $100,000 on the meter you think you own me . |
| 5 | IBM 's desktop RS/6000s clocked up $470m of the $1,000m , other workstations $360m , with deskside machines taking $160m and rack-mounts $1m. 36% of sales were direct , 34% came through value-added resellers and 30% from other IBM agents : the company projects 1993 figures at 40% , 30% and 30% through these channels respectively . |