Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 2 | The house has been boarded up more than eighty years now . ’ |
| 3 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 4 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 5 | They 're really curled up more than like a normal baby are n't they , they 're all sort of , you know , foetal position . |
| 6 | It seems odd , at first sight , that the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent ( q.v. ) should have grown up more than two hundred miles away from the source of their vital ingredient , but in fact the manufacture of stoneware and earthenware had been established in Staffordshire long before the secret of porcelain was found , and that area had the necessary clay , coal and water supplies for the growth of the industry . |
| 7 | But badgers ' often show up better than most , and because they are endowed with stout claws on their front feet , there may be four or five distinct claw-marks showing even if the ground is too hard to reveal the rest of the print . |
| 8 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
| 9 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 10 | Er anyhow th th the , the eventual thing was maybe her blood pressure was going up higher than it should and maybe whether the cumulative stress of having a husband off in my state , maybe |
| 11 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 12 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 13 | In times of high inflation when prices are going up faster than you can save , it can be cheaper to pay interest charges than a higher price later on . |
| 14 | K being positive , it means that prices are going up faster than inflation . |
| 15 | However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept . |
| 16 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 17 | So , another possible explanation is that in a polygynous society , the parallel cousins will be much more likely to grow up together than the cross-cousins . |
| 18 | Front-line troops were being used up quicker than units pulled out into reserve could recover ; moreover , they were demoralised by what had happened inside Douaumont . |
| 19 | House and land prices tend on the whole to go up rather than down . |
| 20 | I prefer to go up rather than down , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | In short a process of levelling up rather than the levelling down anticipated by many critics of comprehensive provision . |
| 22 | Why does not the Minister condemn the appointments of spouses of Tory Members and of Members of the House of Lords who pick up more than £5,000 a year for doing a day 's work ? |
| 23 | Local authorities would be obliged to allocate 15 per cent of council housing to people from depressed areas , and in areas where council housing made up less than 20 per cent of housing , the local authority would be obliged to make a 15 per cent contribution to its construction . |
| 24 | This SiO4 building-block can combine with almost all of the other twelve elements in the list to form silicate minerals , and these , with quartz , make up more than 99 per cent of all volcanic rocks . |
| 25 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 26 | Now a new report , prepared by the University of Reading 's Department of Agricultural economics and Management , reveals that those small farms make up more than 40 per cent of the UK 's farming industry , but are of ‘ negligible agricultural significance ’ , being responsible for only 2 er cent of all the UK 's agricultural production . |
| 27 | We make up more than a fifth of the European Parliamentary Labour Group in Europe , which in turn forms a quarter of the socialist group the biggest political block in the European Parliament and G M B Members cover the full range of parliamentary committees over the years we feel that a vast range of queries and questions whizzed by the G M B membership . |
| 28 | In total women make up less than 20 per cent of the labour force in large private sector firms and the majority are young and unmarried who leave before they have accumulated more than 10 years service . |
| 29 | Patients with cancer are seen sooner in most pain clinics ( median 25 days in clinics in teaching hospitals and just 10 days in clinics in district general hospitals ) , but these patients make up less than 3% of new referrals to pain clinics ( patients with cancer are usually treated outwith outpatient clinics ) . |
| 30 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |