Example sentences of "[noun] up on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Attendance figures reached 6,700 , some 10% up on last year .
2 A number of them were about 10% up on last year , and several were as much as 20% up .
3 Though I seen partridge up on Cocky Down . ’
4 and Mark remember on Monday the they got a mix up on that letter for the management , right ?
5 The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away .
6 We see the U K certainly coming out of recession and we are something like twelve percent up on same time last year in the U K. Having said that , the E C is well over twenty percent down on same time last year .
7 On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there .
8 Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers .
9 Some magnificent results have come in so far with Badenoch and Strathspey being 71% , Nithsdale 99% and East Lothian 100% up on last year .
10 ‘ Honest to God , I put three fingers up on one hand and one finger on the other , smiled at him and then sat down , ’ said Redknapp .
11 ‘ Overall our four shops were about 17% up on last year ’ , though even with this boost , trading in the calendar year will be down on ‘ 91 .
12 ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years .
13 HAMILTON Park , due to launch the Flat season in Scotland on Monday , yesterday revealed record prize money of just under half-a-million pounds for the months ahead — £105,000 up on last year .
14 In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures .
15 In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures .
16 The figure included for non-payment £28.04 is 50p up on last year .
17 ‘ Trade has been keeping up well , ’ said GUS 's deputy chairman Richard Pugh , with the average spend of its eight million UK customers up on last year .
18 Sales of Gateacre-made Spam are already 7% up on last year and the new campaign is aimed at increasing them even further .
19 So he 's taking people up on regular flights over the Gloucestershire countryside .
20 And I took it to the people up on Royal Parade , who are constantly having burglaries , no , that 's that 's true , they have had several quite chunky burglaries
21 bit and on word ‘ to ’ , put one finger up on each hand
22 A third alliance with a still unidentified company next month should give it a leg up on high-performance transaction processing and multi-processing .
23 She stood in the open door , fists up on either side of her head , banging it , banging it hard , and wailing , " No , no , no , oh no …
24 This averages out at £369 per person 2pc up on last year .
25 Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training .
26 He said well from my point of view anyway at least he said just disregard that completely he said and we will do it on what you earnt , so he said all I can is erm just put in as many hours as you can to get your wages up on that side erm and then by the time we look at that he said , the end of February obviously you 'll have December , January and February which will be good months there , I said yeah so he said well then you know erm a hundred pound here and a hundred pound here he said , it all helps to keep the figure up for you so he s
27 Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991-92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC .
28 Last year NEC shipped 14,200 of the EWS4800 workstations , which was 120% up on normal sales for the previous year — excluding an extraordinary order for 6,000 units from Daiwa Securities carried over from the 1991–92 fiscal year — and anticipates growth to 20,000 shipments this financial year — growth which is stable in value terms , according to NEC .
29 Informix says it 'll have its database software up on Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha AXP next month — the stuff is out now on Solaris 2.1 under Sparc .
30 Durham are hoping for a quality entry and with £350 £50 up on last year waiting for the champion , they wo n't be disappointed .
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