Example sentences of "[verb] up [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sugar , who with his directors holds a 36% stake in the group , is stumping up £19.5m of his own money for the deal . |
| 2 | In the half it used up £21m of this provision , and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m . |
| 3 | The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum . |
| 4 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 5 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 6 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 7 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 8 | Make sex discussions much less of a trial with the Family Planning Association 's new Growing Up series of leaflets : Answering Your Child 's Questions , for parents ; How Your Body Changes , for teenagers . |
| 9 | SparcWare is driven by the need to lower the support costs that eat up 50% of every software engineering dollar and expand the market for independent software vendors . |
| 10 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Meals out eat up 20pc of nation 's food bill |
| 12 | It envisages sucking up 45% of the multi-user Intel market in the first 24 months of NT 's life . |
| 13 | In the year 2000 gas will make up 40% of USSR energy production . |
| 14 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 15 | Persistent and casual truants — so categorised by headteachers — made up 4% of the school roll in November and 5% in June . |
| 16 | In 1983 imported coal ( domestic production is minimal ) made up 9% of total energy demand . |
| 17 | In 1992 , VAX-related revenues made up 70% of total group turnover , but Turner expects this to drop to 60% in 1993 as AS/400 business continues to grow . |
| 18 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 19 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 20 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 21 | These twin appeals aim to reduce the College 's dependence on tuition fees , which in 1983 ( the year in which the Appeal was launched ) made up 73% of Somerville 's income . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This year , sales here increased 133% to £5.6m , and made up 45% of all new licence sales . |
| 24 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 25 | Of the 169 companies listed , five make up 85% of the value of the composite index . |
| 26 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 27 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 28 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 29 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 30 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |