Example sentences of "[num] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Despite its sponsor membership of the Open Software Foundation , IBM Corp is to put Unix System V up on the RS/6000 .
2 Sails vary in size from 2m 2 up to the monster 8m 2 sails , allowing windsurfers the option of choosing the right sail size for the conditions .
3 Applications totalled 96 — 35 more than last year and 22 up on the previous highest total two years ago .
4 Bates , 5–4 up in the first set tie-break broke a racket string in the middle of the next point and eventually lost the tie-break 7–5 .
5 Under Alexander III up to the 1905 revolution , particular efforts were made to Russify the European peoples of the empire , to stretch , in Seton-Watson 's evocative phrase , ‘ the short , tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire ’ .
6 It was also one of the top three ports for barley , handling 68,000 tonnes — 30,000 up on the previous year .
7 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 .
8 This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes .
9 Despite being 6-1 up from the home leg , boss Graeme Souness is demanding his players treat this European Cup Winners ' Cup clash with Apollon Limassol as anything but a dead game .
10 It truly was a parochial effort as children from the age of six up to the oldest members took part .
11 Six up from the first leg …
12 Furthermore , he ordered the emancipation of all slaves in the possession of British subjects residing in Zanzibar ; it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 up to the time of his leaving Zanzibar .
13 The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes .
14 Whilst this approach has opened MDC up to the laissez-faire criticism of market interference , it creates a policy flexibility within which there is potential to engage with local authority and community imperatives .
15 But while South Africa cruised home with a day to spare to go 1-0 up in the four-match series , it was more of a struggle than they expected after India began the fourth day at 71-6 , just eight runs ahead .
16 But in 1989 , 1990 and 1991 the Extended HGSC Index underperformed , as it did in 1992 up to the date when this issue went to press .
17 The Irish nine , 4 up at the interval .
18 Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half .
19 Swedish midfielder Patrick Andersson put Rovers 1–0 up on the day , but goals from David Hirst and Mark Bright settled the issue .
20 Figures for January this year were 11 up on the same month last year , when 73 women contacted Edinburgh Women 's Aid .
21 ‘ Sunken featured building ’ is a cumbersome and inelegant term adopted for relatively small structures erected over a sub-rectangular pit dug in the ground , ranging in size from 3 × 2 m up to the largest so far excavated at Upton ( Northamptonshire ) which measured 9.1 × 5.5 m ( Jackson et al .
22 Wed went 1 up in the space of a couple of minutes .
23 An own goal from Sunderland 's Gary Owers , left the Reds two one up at the interval , that 's how it stayed and Liverpool are now three points clear at the top , but they have an inferior goal difference to Arsenal .
24 Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday .
25 From the beginning of the period of rapid employment reductions in BR in the early 1960s up to the present , manual employees ' earnings have scarcely reached average levels for industry as a whole .
26 A birdie two at the 32nd gave Rafferty the lead and he went two up at the 34th where Lyle , disturbed mid-swing by the clicking of a camera , pulled his tee shot into the trees on the left .
27 ‘ You just forget about our two up at the farm and sit down here with me , by the fire . ’
28 Again Colm went two up at the tenth but Michael got it back to one at the 12 a birdie at the 14 brought the lead back to two up .
29 ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me .
30 X with a little two up in the air .
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