Example sentences of "[noun sg] went up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 2 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 3 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 4 | The figure went up from 178 in 1982 to 252 in 1991 . |
| 5 | Odette 's weight went up to 17½ stone before she found the strength she needed to tackle her eating problem . |
| 6 | ‘ Not till — ’ But their argument was violently interrupted as a cheer of derision went up from another corner of the playground and Jack caught a glimpse of Derek 's looming bulk in the middle of a crowd of children . |
| 7 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 8 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 9 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 10 | For motorists , at six o' clock , the price of petrol and diesel went up by three pence per litre . |
| 11 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 12 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 13 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 14 | My handicap went up in twos the winters I spent with him . |
| 15 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 16 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 17 | If that is doing nothing , what were the last Labour Government doing when inflation went up to 27 per cent ? |
| 18 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 19 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 20 | The total fertility rate went up from 2.22 to 2.94 — an increase of 32 per cent . |
| 21 | A roar went up from those near by and the corporal to whom Maggie had just handed the tea , muttered , ‘ Good for you . |
| 22 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 23 | A cheer went up from 1,000 throats , greeting the floating city as it towered above Clydebank Town Hall . |
| 24 | Fianna Fail 's PV dropped from 47.7 in 1965 to 45.7 in 1969 , whilst its PS went up from 50.3 to 51.7 . |
| 25 | Between 1862 and 1870 the size of the reserve went up from 210,000 men to 553,000 . |
| 26 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 27 | In Northern Ireland , last year saw some 5,000 redundancies , while the number claiming dole went up by 3,500 . |
| 28 | The first poster went up at Oval station on April 14 . |
| 29 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 30 | What if the cloud went up to five thousand feet ? |