Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 2 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 3 | Under the bill , anyone who falsely accused fruit or vegetables of being tainted with dangerous preservatives or pesticides could be fined up to three times the value of lost product . |
| 4 | That sensitivity rises when they are ovulating , becoming up to 10,000 times more acute than at menstruation . |
| 5 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 6 | At its peak , in June , when 12,000 vehicles were employed , one passed along it every fourteen seconds , and it was estimated that the mileage accrued each week along its short fifty miles added up to twenty-five times the earth 's circumference . |
| 7 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 8 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
| 9 | It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times . |
| 10 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |
| 11 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 12 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 13 | In the case of the transport company the uninsured costs added up to 8 times the insured costs , but in the case of the creamery the figure was much larger at 36 times the insured costs . |
| 14 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 15 | Jobs said at Comdex that NeXTStep was created in answer to the problem of ever-increasing amounts of code necessary for today 's increasingly complex applications — with NeXTStep 's object-oriented development tools , custom applications can be written up to 10 times faster than for MS-DOS or Windows , have greater quality and reliability , 83% fewer lines of code , at a 90% cost saving . |
| 16 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 17 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |
| 18 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 20 | HSE studies have shown the actual cost of the incidents ranging up to 27 times the insured cost . |
| 21 | If your mortgage application is in your name only , you can borrow up to 3½ times your gross annual salary . |
| 22 | In the other six big countries , the ratio will grow up to four times as fast . |
| 23 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 24 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 25 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 26 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 27 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 28 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 29 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 30 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |