Example sentences of "up [noun] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | MORE evidence of an upturn in the housing market came yesterday with home builders reporting more than 16,400 new starts in April up 17pc on the same month last year . |
2 | She said , ‘ We 'll all be pulling up sticks about the same time , then ! |
3 | The DPR directors had worked at LHW and set up DPR along the same principles . |
4 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
5 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
6 | British Waterways have also topped up stocks in the same watercourse below Thwaites Mill . |
7 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
8 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
9 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
10 | A source within Hewlett-Packard UK claimed that its first quarter 700 Series workstation figures showed revenues up 120% over the same period last year . |