Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Normally pear-sized , the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy . |
| 5 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp will this week debut its second generation massively parallel system , the MP-2 , claiming it delivers up to five times the performance of its existing MP-1 . |
| 6 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 7 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 8 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 9 | Boundary Routing — according to the company — enables up to 10 times as many remote site connections to be added without increasing administrative resources . |
| 10 | And when the third and surviving princess emerges from her orange , Lesley Garrett immediately makes up for lost time , singing ravishingly . |