Example sentences of "up [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earnings — up 4% in the year to March — are still rising faster than underlying inflation . |
| 2 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 3 | THE Princess of Wales 's brother and his wife have accused tabloid newspapers of harassing them and making up stories in the run-up to their wedding in September this year . |
| 4 | Overseas , where the high yen threatens to be most damaging , Keyence is booming , with exports up 30% in the year to March . |
| 5 | A further difficulty is that repeated mismatching between feelings and behaviour can build up stresses in the system to the extent that something has to ‘ blow ’ . |
| 6 | That will make East Germans feel even more imprisoned and could heat up resentment against the government to explosion point . |