Example sentences of "up [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 2 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 3 | Have you been er worrying about Margaret Thatcher tearing a pound note up for the last twelve thirteen years ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 5 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 6 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 9 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 10 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 11 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 12 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 13 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 14 | We believe that the downturn has genuinely bottomed out now , however , and we will be watching for a pick up during the next three months . ’ |
| 15 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 16 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 17 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |
| 18 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 19 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 20 | Climb up into the first lost valley viewing the towering cliffs of Sgor Chionasaid and Sgor a' Bhatain on either side . |
| 21 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 22 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 23 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 24 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 25 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 26 | This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes . |
| 27 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 28 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 29 | This view of community education and development is well summed up in the first Gulbenkian Report on Community Work . |
| 30 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |