Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 2 | A companion to their recent Best of , this compilation gathers up sixteen songs from the ruins of their turbulent eight-year career , from the glorious shambles of their rudimentary punk-folk anthems to their later , less convincing , forays into more exotic territories . |
| 3 | His head is cocked slightly to one side , as if to reduce his height to Shirley Esplin 's level , and a slight sympathetic smile goes up one side of his face . |
| 4 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 5 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 6 | A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes . |
| 7 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 8 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 9 | the spaghetti takes up 10 metres of shelf space |
| 10 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 11 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 12 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 13 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 14 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 15 | As you can see once again the advertising is a problem in year one which takes up forty percent of our actual cost of the total product . |
| 16 | An Opel Rekord , stolen three days earlier in the Piraeus , pulls up 20 yards behind them . |
| 17 | To construct one , the spider clambers up one side of the gap and lifts her abdomen into the air . |
| 18 | It gobbles up 17 acres of land and property in my constituency and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras ( Mr. Dobson ) to create a low-level box that will include platforms and railway lines serving the channel tunnel traffic , Thameslink and other commuter traffic . |
| 19 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 20 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 21 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 22 | Peter Marshall moves up one place to No 6 and Chris Walker climbs three places to No 7 . |
| 23 | Okay , A gives up two units of reproductive success , a food item to B. This benefits B by three units of reproductive success , whereas it would only benefit A by only two units of reproductive success . |
| 24 | everybody on that call , instead of sixteen channels on a card and there 's five people using it , it comes up five channels in use and blocks out number eleven so that nobody else can use it |
| 25 | Blocks them off as well yeah , and it comes up one channel in use when they cleared out card down , it clears the card so you can take it out I do n't , they come down three channels in use , two channels in use , one channel in use . |
| 26 | ‘ I DID N'T think that Chester would have a homeless problem ’ , is a comment we hear quite often , says Father Tim Dowling , Father Guardian of St Francis 's Church and Honorary Secretary of Chester Aid to the Homeless , CATH , as it is known for short , is a registered charity , which this year notches up 20 years of working with homeless people . |