Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | The financial resources of Abbey National are exceptionally strong and our reserves have been built up over many years through a combination of prudence and innovation . |
| 4 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |
| 5 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 6 | Possibly more champions are made up in one year in Australia than the total achieved in the UK since the breed 's first introduction . |
| 7 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 8 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 9 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 11 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 12 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 13 | Citations to actual theses generally reflect long periods of current influence , with some theses continuing to be cited up to twenty years after their deposit . |
| 14 | Hurray-for-the-Medici cycle of paintings to be split up after 370 years |
| 15 | To join the Herald Junior Club , you need to be aged up to 12 years . |
| 16 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 18 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 19 | Another important factor contributing to the lower-risk insurance element was that , quite simply , buildings that have been put up in recent years have been much more structurally sound than those constructed during the '60s and early '70s . |
| 20 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 21 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 22 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 23 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 24 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 25 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 26 | The junior U20 squad is made up of 16 year old Ballygowan student Neil Jackson ( Ballydrain ) , Padraig Mallon ( 18 ) from Newry , Dean Fisher ( Ballydrain ) and Paul Curran ( North Down ) . |
| 27 | The junior U20 squad is made up of 16 year old Ballygowan student Neil Jackson ( Ballydrain ) , Padraig Mallon ( 18 ) from Newry , Dean Fisher ( Ballydrain ) and Paul Curran ( North Down ) . |
| 28 | Fisher , 18 , is serving up to 15 years for blasting mother-of-two Mary Jo Buttasuoco , 37 . |
| 29 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 30 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |