Example sentences of "[noun pl] be up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage , we see that output is up a quarter , investment is up a third , productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters . |
| 2 | Despite the Labour party 's smears about what has been happening recently , manufacturing exports are up this year , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 3 | In very difficult trading circumstances , footwear exports in the past 12 months were up 11 per cent . |
| 4 | Amongst them bankruptcies are up 100 per cent . |
| 5 | Unveiling a three-year growth plan to raise sales progressively from an expected 5,000 houses this year to an eventual figure of 8,000 , he said reservations were up 15 per cent in the first three months of the year . |
| 6 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 7 | The Nationalists were up seven per cent but ceded two of their five strongholds . |
| 8 | Our sales figures were UP last year and we would like this trend to continue — Keep up the good work ! |
| 9 | Imports of consumer goods were up 19 per cent . |
| 10 | British Airways were up 1 at 198 , B P up 2 at 341 , British Gas down 1 at 219 , British Steel up 1 at 133 , British Telecom up 1 at 296 , Rolls Royce up 1 at 169 and T S B up 1 at 136 . |
| 11 | Animal health profits rose 5 per cent on a 4 per cent higher turnover , and consumer brands ' profits were up 1 per cent , on a 12 per cent higher turnover . |
| 12 | Sales in the year to August grew by 19 per cent to £131m , while operating profits were up 17 per cent at £22.1m . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits were up 7.5 per cent at £1.48million on turnover marginally ahead at £29.5million . |
| 14 | Ten years later , after a 17 per cent drop in the secondary school population of the area , suspensions are up 230 per cent , the centres admit suspended as well as pre-suspension pupils and a fourth centre has been opened . |
| 15 | Tour operator Thomson said bookings are up five per cent on last year , with more than 80,000 people travelling in the last week of the year . |
| 16 | Excluding the volatile transportation sector , bookings were up 0.7 per cent . |
| 17 | THE ‘ house full ’ signs were up last night as Dublin 's Ken Doherty made his return to the Benson & Hedges Masters at the Goff 's complex in Kill . |
| 18 | Profits and earnings per share rose 17 per cent and dividends to shareholders were up 10 per cent . |
| 19 | The door takings were up ⅓ on last year . |
| 20 | However , in volume terms , exports were up seven per cent in the last three months compared with the previous three months and was up 13 per cent on a year ago . |
| 21 | Dividends are up 10 p.c. to 5½p after a final of 3.8p payable on May 30 . |
| 22 | The children were up first . |
| 23 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | more in-patients are being treated in Wales , and the number of day cases is up 227 per cent . |
| 25 | ‘ Your ten minutes was up half an hour ago , Clare . |
| 26 | The shares were up 16 to 315p . |
| 27 | The shares were up 1 at 66p . |
| 28 | The shares were up 1 to 426p . |