Example sentences of "shot up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nomura held on to top spot in the annual Eurobond underwriting rankings while other Japanese firms slipped ; Yamaichi dropped to tenth while London 's CSFB shot up to second place . |
| 2 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 3 | The total removal rate shot up to 27 per cent an hour , depositing the sulphur in a concentrated drizzle . |
| 4 | During the electoral and economic crisis of 1935 the Party had accepted no new members , but when it opened its books again in September 1936 membership shot up to 29,819 . |
| 5 | This rose to 50% in the mid 1980s , but in 1991 it shot up to 55% . |
| 6 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 7 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 8 | Ten years later it stood at 3,253 , then over the next decade it shot up to 5,169 . |
| 9 | In nineteen ninety one the S S A was introduced as the measure for assessing local authority needs and in that year our spending , instead of being one or two percent below what the government thought , it shot up to forty nine point nine five percent above the S S A figures . |