Example sentences of "take up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 2 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 3 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 4 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 5 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , my Lord , my wife took up with a hawker and man away five years ago : and I have never seen her since , so I married this other woman last winter . ’ |
| 7 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 8 | It is possible to play with the distance between the position taken up as a reader and the meaning the text seems to offer . |
| 9 | In such a case at least one share would have to be taken up by a solicitor or a recognised body to avoid expiry of the recognition . |
| 10 | In such a case at least one share would have to be taken up by a solicitor or a recognised body to avoid expiry of the recognition . |
| 11 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |