Example sentences of "[verb] up the [num] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source .
2 Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one .
3 I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door .
4 Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis .
5 The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year .
6 Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies
7 Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 .
8 From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik !
9 Clarks Yard is soon to be put on the market as part of Darlington council 's bid to spruce up the three historic yards between High Row and Skinnergate .
10 The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture .
11 LONG promised evening off tonight for Kay Kirkham , pointing up the three cornered fight in Stockton South for the Lib-Dems .
12 Kirin Brewery Co has set up the 25,000 square metre Hokuriku beer park which is open to the public and can brew up to 1m hectolitres of beer per year .
13 That the 25 groups making up the 15 000 hunter-gatherers of the Philippine Negritos practise minor desultory cultivation and intensive trading with non-Negrito agriculturists is not recent as has often been argued , for eighteenth-century reports indicate trade of forest products for rice , tobacco , metal tools , beads and pots , as well as shifting cultivation by the 1740s at the latest .
14 There were only 500,000 TV sets ( 1957 ( and 50 per cent of Frenchmen could not pick up the one black-and-white channel : but politicians perceived the potential of what was to become — under de Gaulle — a mass medium .
15 He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot .
16 Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) .
17 and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five .
18 Holborn picked up the 1992 Best Overall Branch prize , Threadneedle Street were presented with a plaque for being top Branch in the Customer Satisfaction Index for 1992–93 , and Pall Mall received the Cost/Income Award for 1991–92/ The top student award went to Julian Gouge who , in 1992 , achieved the highest aggregate marks among all Royal Bank candidates in the Associateship examinations .
19 Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men .
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