Example sentences of "up [prep] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With current failure rates of around 1% a year a new design that was a 30% improvement over an older one ( a truly radical improvement ) would require a trial of many thousands of patients followed up for at least a decade before a significant difference could be shown .
2 Everybody ended up with at least a bit of the meat — apart , that is , from the top male Kendo and a few of the shyer females .
3 After coming up with at least an estimate of your starting point , you need to decide where you want to go .
4 Indeed , there is a time lag in the uptake of many research ideas of up to at least a decade in some instances ( 18 ) .
5 He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now .
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