Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 2 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 3 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 4 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 5 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 6 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 7 | So you can allocate up to a third . |
| 8 | Taking his cue from the Egyptians , Mr Ra came up with a third : Mummification ( with a capital ‘ M ’ because Summum , besides patenting the process , has somehow registered the word as a trademark ) . |
| 9 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 10 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 11 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
| 12 | But the tax on company cars goes up by a third . |
| 13 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 14 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 15 | Under these conditions the human observer sees a chevron , made up of two of the gratings , moving against a background made up of the third . |
| 16 | On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain . |
| 17 | As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty . |
| 18 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 19 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 20 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 21 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 22 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 23 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 24 | But I understand , and somebody here will no doubt correct me , that there is research to show that if you do actually walk about with a Sony Walkman , go to noisy discos , and then go into a noisy working environment , that by the age of thirty you can lose up to a third of your hearing . |
| 25 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
| 26 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |