Example sentences of "[noun] add up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 .
2 Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities .
3 The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend .
4 This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years !
5 Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ?
6 If deterrence really is the name of the game , then , so it would seem , the missiles that NATO already deploys in submarines add up to a threat to soviet cities and centres of industry that is more than sufficient .
7 Your daily milk , two pieces of fresh fruit and portion of Fibre-Filler add up to a total of 400 calories and 20g of fibre .
8 For the early empiricists the answers taken in conjunction with other facts about the social structure add up to a description of a particular society .
9 These factors add up to a teaching force facing rising demands on its skills with falling numbers .
10 Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands .
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