Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screen detected high blood pressure under 40 : a general practice population followed up for 21 years |
| 2 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 3 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 4 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 5 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |