Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 2 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 3 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 4 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 5 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 6 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 7 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 8 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 9 | The accounts suggest that if this trend continues , ‘ the entire investment base of the Diocese will have been used up within the next two years . ’ |
| 10 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 11 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 12 | A single agency to control all forms of pollution in Scotland is to be set up over the next three years . |
| 13 | He is currently working on a project for an additional 125 aid centres to be set up within the next three years . |
| 14 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 15 | In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months . |
| 16 | Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 18 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |