Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] up [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 2 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 3 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 4 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 5 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 6 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |