Example sentences of "up [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE evidence of an upturn in the housing market came yesterday with home builders reporting more than 16,400 new starts in April up 17pc on the same month last year . |
| 2 | And a Scottish Partner Centre has also been set up to attract companies that are interested in either expanding or setting up headquarters in the region . |
| 3 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 4 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 5 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 6 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 7 | The Japanese government is putting up 90% of the funds , but 14 private institutions are taking part , including NEC Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 8 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 9 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 10 | In the past financial year companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) raised a staggering ¥25 trillion through various forms of equity financing — up 65% over the previous year . |
| 11 | Follow up data for the 18 patients who were alive when the 1988 report was assembled have been obtained from the most recent inpatient assessment at Harefield Hospital ( 1991–2 ) , where all but one patient are reviewed in depth each year or more often if problems arise . |
| 12 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 13 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 14 | Just because you 've run up $100,000 on the meter you think you own me . |
| 15 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 16 | The number of students enrolling for one or more modules in 1987/88 was just over 154,000 — up 46% on the previous year . |
| 17 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 18 | Persistent and casual truants — so categorised by headteachers — made up 4% of the school roll in November and 5% in June . |
| 19 | Earnings — up 4% in the year to March — are still rising faster than underlying inflation . |
| 20 | Might come up trumps. on the night but nobody do on . |
| 21 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 22 | Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd has reported net profit for the year to March 31 up 13% at the equivalent of $832.2m on turnover that rose 18% to $2,801m . |
| 23 | Net earnings per share , up 73% in the quarter , were $0.63 in the nine months . |
| 24 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 25 | Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ? |
| 26 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 27 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 29 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 30 | Overseas , where the high yen threatens to be most damaging , Keyence is booming , with exports up 30% in the year to March . |