Example sentences of "up [noun] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , whatever type of regime is decided upon , locking up 12- to 15-year-olds on the scale likely to result from the Government 's present proposals is an excessive reaction . |
| 2 | Hammerson shot up 45p to 855p in sympathy . |
| 3 | Net earnings per share , up 67% to $0.20 in the quarter , slipped 13% to $0.20 in the nine months . |
| 4 | Net earnings per share , up 67% to $0.20 in the quarter , slipped 13% to $0.20 in the nine months . |
| 5 | Profits edged up £59,000 to £2.12m before tax . |
| 6 | Tesco gave up 15½p to 242p on the week , even though profits for last year are expected to be £123 million up at £540 million . |
| 7 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 8 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 9 | But , with the group expected to follow George Wimpey and John Laing in making substantial provisions , it could end up £25m to £30m in the red . |
| 10 | To meet the demands of the fast growing notebook market , which Technology says now makes up 20% to 25% of total turnover , ICL has introduced its ErgoPro N3/25v sub-notebook . |
| 11 | Morgan Grenfell shares , up 14p to 485p before the news , dropped immediately to 430p , before bouncing back almost as quickly to close unchanged at 468p . |
| 12 | Earnings per share fell from 24.4p to 17½p but dividends are up 0.2p to 10.2p with a final of 6.2p payable June 10 . |
| 13 | The probability of the source of the blood being HBsAg positive varies from 1 to 3 per thousand in the general population , up 5% to 15% in high risk groups . |
| 14 | Other experiences of the police emerged from follow up questions to perception of the police . |
| 15 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 16 | City : Chairman 's pay up 93pc to £1.8m at Beecham |
| 17 | Yesterday 's sharp rise in Saatchi 's shares , up 40p to 340p in a falling market , was spurred by a flood of rumours . |
| 18 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 19 | In often busy trading Scottish shares frothed up 20p to 389p with stories flowing that the French BSN foods and drinks group or the giant US brewer Anheuser-Busch was about to pounce . |
| 20 | Land Securities bucked the market trend , up 7p to 665p over reports that the property sector is on the edge of a strong recovery and a major revaluation . |
| 21 | Net per share , up 11% to $0.10 in the quarter , fell 97% to $0.28 in the nine months . |
| 22 | News of the negotiations pushed Cable & Wireless shares up 29p to 548p on the stock market in London . |
| 23 | Neuroscientists may amuse themselves by thinking up objections to homologies between brainstem structures , but this is n't pursued that seriously . |