Example sentences of "up [n mass] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 2 | In the past financial year companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) raised a staggering ¥25 trillion through various forms of equity financing — up 65% over the previous year . |
| 3 | The number of students enrolling for one or more modules in 1987/88 was just over 154,000 — up 46% on the previous year . |
| 4 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 5 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 6 | Disregarding China 's quaint practice of counting disbursed government borrowings as revenue , the true deficit reached 48 billion yuan last year , up 35% on the previous year . |
| 7 | The provisional clean cattle price for the Monday-Thursday period was calculated at 143.16p per kg lw , up 0.45p on the previous week . |
| 8 | Toyota 's top-of-the-range Landcruiser VX , now with antilock brakes and side impact bars as standard , costs £29,565 , up £1300 on the old model . |
| 9 | In 1953–54 nearly 40% of all male students were classified as manual workers ; men as a whole made up 45% of the total number of students . |
| 10 | It envisages sucking up 45% of the multi-user Intel market in the first 24 months of NT 's life . |
| 11 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 12 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |