Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 2 | Their livelihoods are important and it is entirely right that their expertise , built up over many years , should be made available to reprocess nuclear fuel when appropriate . |
| 3 | Even their footsteps were silent on the thick carpet of pine needles built up over countless years . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ The two systems , an Alpha Drum Monitor and a Neutron Coincidence Counter , are results of development and design expertise from both Risley and Sellafield built up over recent years . |
| 5 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 6 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 7 | He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 8 | On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 10 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 11 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 12 | Screen detected high blood pressure under 40 : a general practice population followed up for 21 years |
| 13 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 14 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 15 | The plethora of environmentally-sensitive farming schemes dreamed up over recent years is thought by some to be causing more confusion than clarity . |
| 16 | The bottles you buy today contain rain water which fell up to 80 years ago . |
| 17 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |
| 18 | Like when we 're doing geography , we do n't seem to be working , but when we started revising we ended up in two years with seven books , which is goodness knows how much compared with chemistry or a subject like that . |
| 19 | Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development . |
| 20 | News for the 1990s backed up by 60 years of authoritative reporting . |