How To Use Take up In A Sentence

I have been very busy lately and the ongoing project will take up about a few more weeks.
Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.
They take up little space and give a real boost to summer and autumn colour. Times, Sunday Times
Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
Paul took up the post of County Accountant in the mid-Seventies, leaving for a short spell, only to return to take up the post of Finance Officer.

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This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.
Don't suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity.
Digital signals can be compressed to take up less space, leaving room for additional programming.
He went into chemistry, left New Plymouth in 1946, and returned in 1952 to take up a post at his old school as housemaster and teacher.
The vice-president was forced to take up the reins of office.
Ten men with chiselled faces and Kalashnikovs jump out and take up positions. Times, Sunday Times
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling. Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too.
When people retire, they often take up new hobbies and start to make new friends.
Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
Still, Congress has been slow to take up arms against foolish laws that promote pollution.
In foreign countries, sportspersons take up rowing as a profession.
Why are the opinions of the exceptionally overopinionated classes so spectacularly important as they must take up valuable space. The Guardian World News
There's a short, sharp thrill about it, and we only have a band on for half an hour, so it doesn't take up a large chunk of the night if people don't like it.
Additional teachers are needed to take up the hours of direct teaching time lost due to the need to perform supervisory duties.
This is also the best advertisement for encouraging kids to take up the game.
This vacuum not only holds products in place, it also compacts the package size, reducing the amount of space they take up in cartons.
When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
Dr Eades wrote, “You must keep protein intake up during low-carb dieting so that you have more than enough protein available for gluconeogenesis without having to catabolize your muscle mass.” The votes are in: Dissect it is! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
At some future time I hope to take up the epileptoid convulsions and show their relationship and variation from that of the mechanism of essential epilepsy. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
People in a residential colony are encouraged to take up group activity such as walking or jogging or aerobic exercises.
Only take upon yourself those things that you know you can manage comfortably.
It's important to take it steadily when you first decide to take up any sport and running is no different.
Later on, of course, he had to pay the reaper, give up his high flying Rock ‘n’ Roll life style, put the demon alcohol behind him and take up golf, but that's another avenue we can descend down on another trip.
While we were required to take up these presents, I chanced to cast an eye upon the table, where there lay a fresh service of cheese-cakes and tarts, and in the midst of them a lusty rundlet, stuck round with all sorts of apples and grapes, as they commonly draw that figure. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
I do not propose to take up any further time in the House, and I ask that members progress the bill as quickly as they can.
The question is how quickly new compounds can come through and take up the slack. Times, Sunday Times
They take up every available wall space in the hallway, sandwiched between display cases, squeezed between doorways.
The choice of phrases in Ballads and Songs, and perhaps more in serious pieces, is of much importance; a common use of old worn out words I do not like, such as erst, whilom, and a thousand more; and yet to take up and use Letter 94
I am confident that under his new leadership, the group will take up its rightful position as the best grocer in town. The Sun
Doctors take up knives and pare off flesh and bone.
He also finds time to take up painting and sculpturing.
The Navy said the low take up had nothing to do with the packages on offer which it described as 'attractive'. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He added: 'The aim is also to encourage youngsters to take up active outdoor pursuits as a hobby. The Sun
When a bird trying to fly upwards is made to fall upon the earth snare, it is a plain proof that the snare is there; so, Israel, now that thou art falling, infer thence, that it is in the snare of the divine judgment that thou art entangled [Ludovicus De Dieu]. shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing -- The bird-catcher does not remove his snare off the ground till he has caught some prey; so God will not withdraw the Assyrians, &c., the instruments of punishment, until they have had the success against you which God gives them. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She audaciously leaves home to take up a job as an assistant on a literary magazine in New Delhi.
Readings take up a disproportionate amount of my time and, more importantly, emotional energy, I find.
Then too often there is an endless charity appeal that can take upwards of 20 minutes. The Sun
He might be tempted to take up croquet, or just the croquet mallet in pursuit of his enemies. Times, Sunday Times
If Sue gets a job, Mick will have to take up the slack at home.
I'm really tempted to take up that job offer in Washington, but I don't want to burn my boats with this company.
They will take up far less space indoors over the winter than the big parent plants. Times, Sunday Times
Karadzic rarely referred to specific allegations in the indictment, concentrating instead on what he described as the victimization of the Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia, which prompted them to take up arms. Fore, right!
Then too often there is an endless charity appeal that can take upwards of 20 minutes. The Sun
At the same time bible-based cults may ridicule churches that take up free-will offerings by passing collection plates and/or sell literature and tapes.
IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
Salaries take up a considerable portion of our total budget.
So, as Tea Partiers and newly re-energized Republicans take up the term anew, now's a perfect time to ask: What is freedom, anyway? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
Fishing lines which contain plastic such as nylon can take up to 600 years to decompose, and during degradation become microparticles or microplastics.
Hydrogen, meanwhile, requires costly cryogenic storage that can be hazardous to operate and large, insulated tanks that take up space and weight.
Among these, we will take up the Cambrian explosion and its relation to paleontology and systematics.
Justin has an upper berth on one of two sets of bunk beds that take up most of the tiny room.
He is to take up the ANC's decision, which he called irregular and unacceptable, with the Local Government and Housing official.
He appealed to the business community and other stakeholders to take up the responsibility of developing the area.
Don't dawdle, because the Democrats will take up tax reform and have a range of good answers to choose from. DeMint: Obama 'distracted' from protecting the country
And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so. Leviathan
A section at the end looks at relocation allowances offered to new recruits who have to move to take up an appointment.
They take up residence in the smiling corners of your mouth and on your happy brow. Times, Sunday Times
A generally unsympathetic Supreme Court will again take up the issue - in the context of federal contracting programs - next term.
The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
The aim was not to take up valuable time with the usual boring pictures.
Startled onlookers saw officers arm themselves and take up positions in front of the house.
It's good to take up the threads of our old friendship after such a long absence.
The pointless grudges and differences that constantly seem to cause us to take up arms against each other will no longer exist, freeing us to pursue knowledge, the arts, and terraforming the moon.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Lawyers have suggested that it could still take up to ten years for a new runway plan to clear all legal hurdles. Times, Sunday Times
The piacular sacrifice took place several days later, by which time Caesar had readied himself for his journey to take up duty under Marcus Minucius Thermus, governor of Asia Province. Fortune's Favorites
In contrast, the f CO2 profile of Atlantic-origin waters shows that waters below 50 m in the Eurasian Basin are undersaturated and will take up atmospheric CO2 if moved onto the shelf by upwelling [15]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
The operation means he will be unable to train for two weeks, while it could take up to three months before he reaches full fitness.
The Bench was told that all the 87 buildings surveyed had shown violations and that the BMP had decided to take up a survey of the entire locality.
Our chiaus had a warrant from the pacha to take up asses for our men, and accordingly did so at this place over night; but next morning the Arabians lay in ambush in the way, and took back their asses, neither of our chiauses daring to give them one uncivil word. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
G8 leaders and their entourage of minders, spin-doctors and gofers would need to take up permanent residence at Gleneagles if they ever hoped to match the excesses of the Holyrood debacle.
Carpet tiles are perfect for kitchens because they're easy to take up and wash.
The question is how quickly new compounds can come through and take up the slack. Times, Sunday Times
Beds, boxes(sentence dictionary), a table holding a hot plate and a refrigerator take up most of the space.
If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf. Times, Sunday Times
Kittens can levitate, ricochet, teleport and discorporate and take up most of a double bed. When PZ Turns Fifty . . . - The Panda's Thumb
You must make sure that you only take upon yourself those things that you know you can manage comfortably. The Vitality Diet
The potential for cringe was immediately apparent when two 'bongo' drummers emerged to take up position at the front of the stage (surely bodhran players would have been more appropriate?) and nine Irish rugby 'models' emerged bashfully to a bizarre jungle beat. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
The bill was designed to permit workers to take up to twelve weeks' unpaid leave annually for family reasons.
Then too often there is an endless charity appeal that can take upwards of 20 minutes. The Sun
It will take up to ten days for the onset of symptoms, during which time the person is highly contagious.
Anglers often have long rods and when they have caught something take up the whole path reeling something in.
They take up residence at the Pavilion Theatre for the annual pantomime of silly jokes and bad wigs in an all new, up-to-date production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
This can take up to an hour but it's undemanding and fills the house with wonderful aromas. Times, Sunday Times
My poor niece and her sisters take up most of my time and thoughts: but I will not attrist you to indulge myself, but will break off here, and finish my letter when I have seen your new landlord. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
Normally HIV can take up to 10 years before it develops into Aids, but the new strain damages the immune system at a far greater rate, so it becomes Aids within a couple of months.
The aim was not to take up valuable time with the usual boring pictures.
Other epodes take up motifs from other contemporary genres (elegy in 11 and 15, pastoral in 2) but with significant alterations of tone: Horace ironically breaks the high emotional level of the models with a detached and distant closure.
It was at his insistence that she had started learning music and he wanted her to take up classical singing.
This was an enormous amount of hassle and was going to take up four days of their time.
The council says the work will take up to two months to complete and will lead to road closures and bus diversions.
I try to be aware of the space I take up, of the prejudice that I carry, and the privilege that is the albatross around my neck.
The operator advised our journalist that the recovery vehicle could take up to 75 minutes to reach her and she would receive a phone call 10 minutes before it was due to arrive.
But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole.
The question is whether it is worth positioning oneself to take up those rights, given the potential upside. Times, Sunday Times
The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough. Paras. 40-58
McMillan's already fevered imagination was fired even further, while Mexico gave Beresford the inspiration to take up serious painting again.
The aim was not to take up valuable time with the usual boring pictures.
You may still want one or two kinds of meat and cheese; see if you can find good-quality sopressata, prosciutto, bocconcini fresh mozzarella balls, or pecorino; keep the amounts moderate, though, so they take up about a quarter of your serving platter. The Food Matters Cookbook
Potted roses aren't less work or responsibility; they simply take up less space than a regular rose garden.
However, to everyone's surprise, he almost won a seat in the election by running on a radical platform the Democratic Party had been unwilling to take up.
If you're looking for Christmas pressies that don't take up much space, or for someone who really does have everything, then I can thoroughly recommend the new breed of catalogues which ship your gift to someone who needs it.
A permeable seed imbibes water readily when available, while an impermeable one does not take up water for days or longer.
‘We hope that our programme enthuses medical students to take up studies on the brain,’ he said.
We'd love to take up your invitation to visit you some time.
Although their commitments to Hull meant they were unable to take up an active role with York, Stabler remains a staunch supporter of the Wasps.
On the one hand the overcall would take up bidding space, or might lead to a profitable sacrifice; on the other hand ... To overcall or not?
We don't take up much room and don't have any amplifiers or microphones to encumber us.
He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.
Too many extracurricular activities take up too much of our precious time for study.
We sacrifice some personal purposes, take up the responsibility congregate for some common interests.
I think we might take up the suggestion of printing the books in Hong Kong.
No one dared take up the challenge.
It will probably take up a few white boards and photoshopped photos, fake documents, enlarged fine prints of this and that document with some cabalistic code, conspiring doctors that would have to include the AMA and the American Cancer Society, etc. to shed light on that vast conspiracy! Think Progress » Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care reform a ‘racist law.’
That experience, in the case of Britain, was shared by those who came from former colonies to take up low-paid work and live in run-down areas where they were subjected to both social and institutional discrimination.
Matsch will take up other defense challenges to prosecution witnesses next week.
Mr. Karadzic rarely referred to specific allegations in the indictment, concentrating instead on what he described as the victimization of the Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia, which prompted them to take up arms. Karadzic: Serbs Acted in Self-Defense
During the rush hour the journey may take up to twice as long.
He said the Archaeological Department would take up two forts within the State for preservation.
The vice-president was forced to take up the reins of office.
So far, no politician has emerged as a leader of the Tea Party movement – and the question of just who might eventually take up the mantle is a hot topic on the bus. Looking for a leader, Tea Partiers issue invite to Palin
Stamp-duty bills are deterring workers from relocating to take up jobs with better opportunities. Times, Sunday Times
But annual league guides and almanacs take up more space on your bookshelves and credit cards than they are worth.
He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.
A little success in this first enterprise led him to take up contracting as a business, which he followed on various canals and macadamized roads then building in different parts of the State of Ohio, with some good fortune for awhile, but in 1853 what little means he had saved were swallowed up She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
One morning, passing through Vessory Bazar, I was greatly shocked at seeing the nabob's elephant take up a little child in his trunk and dash its brains out against the ground; the only reason that could be observed was, that the child had thrown some pebble stones at it; and the only redress the poor disconsolate mother could obtain was a gift of fifty pagodas from the nabob, which is about equal to twenty pounds sterling. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
For those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion are still in war; and their condition, not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another; and they live, as it were, in the procincts of battle continually. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
He is equally unsparing about Muslims who move to the West and then take up terrorism.
The question is how quickly new compounds can come through and take up the slack. Times, Sunday Times
The roadworks, which take up one lane of the street, are fenced off on the other side by wire mesh panels.
Mrs Bond is pleased with the response so far, with some people saying they have not knitted in years but will now take up their needles in a good cause.
You can only take up occupation once the tenancy has been signed.
He would remain proconsul over Italy, Spain, Gaul and Syria, but the Senate would take up responsibility for the rest of the provinces.
At last, he has been allowed to take up his office in the House of Commons, where he has raised the Irish flag.
The arguments centred on the ability of terrestrial vegetation to take up CO2, and retain it in the form of wood, roots and soil carbon.
‘This Rover Initiative will help raise the profile of combined events and encourage more youngsters to take up the decathlon and heptathlon,’ added Campbell.
Composition involved, in Gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for his household and quarter his kerne and galloglass on his subjects for defence.
On leaving the College he decided to take up a military career and, when war broke out with Spain he joined the army.
He is sufficiently authorized, as pleni-potentiary, to settle the great concerns that lie between God and man, to take up the controversy which would inevitably have been our ruin, and to establish the correspondence that was necessary to our happiness; see Acts ii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Because of the difficulties of moving the floc, emptying the tanks could take up to six months.
I am glad that He, who is called the Prince of Peace -- who can bring peace to every troubled heart and whose teachings, exemplified in life, will bring peace between man and man, between community and community, between State and State, between nation and nation throughout the world -- I am glad that He brings courage as well as peace so that those who follow Him may take up and each day bravely do the duties that to that day fall. The Art of Public Speaking
He wasn't the ghost-raisin 'kind of spiritualist, and them that went to see a show, come away dissap'inted, for all he did was to talk and take up a collection. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent
Does it take up too much money, money that would otherwise be there for food and clothing, other things?
As someone who has only ever designed websites as an aside to proper work or as a glorified hobby, this is hugely flattering, and something I may just take up.
I shall not take upon me to animadvert upon this; but certain it is, that Johnson paid great attention to Taylor. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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We didn't take up his joke.
This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party, as rival factions take up distinctive stances.
In this instance, the truly brave thing for him to have done would have been to drop the whole military idea and take up abseiling or hang-gliding – indeed, any pursuit that only puts his own neck at risk. Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen
You could not take up a newspaper, English, Scotch, or Irish, without finding in it one or more references to the "vest-pocket million-pounder" and his latest doings and saying.
Not content with cooing and pooing from the rafters, a few of them decided to take up permanent residence in the foyer.
But what? methinks I deserve to be pounded, for straying from poetry to oratory: but both have such an affinity in this wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection, grown among the most part of writers: that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner; whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it. English literary criticism
These little beasts can take up residence in your gut and other assorted innards and live parasitically from you for many, many years.
The eight writers will take up their residencies in January.
Our boss is not one to take up readily with new ideas.
Aware of this, the Athenian generals determined to draw them out in mass as far as possible from the city, and themselves in the meantime to sail by night alongshore, and take up at their leisure The History of the Peloponnesian War
Lifting tackle can take up scenery and properties weighing a ton through a trap door in the roof to the second floor, 25 feet above.
The publishers decided not to take up their option on the paperback version.
Sometimes clothing was provided also for them to be suitably clad to take up their work.
The artist, inspired by her grandmother to take up a needle and thread at the age of five, is determined it does not become a dying art.
Ministers have already unveiled plans to claw back some of the cash if civil servants take up similar posts within 12 months. The Sun
To take up the offer to meet with her please contact the home to arrange a suitable time.
You then take up the next packet, and deal it out in the same manner, beginning on your right (if you are dealing No. 3, deal the first card on No. 4), and continue to deal out each packet till all are exhausted, _pausing between each deal to examine the packets and to make further combinations, and placing on the numerals any suitable cards that may have been produced by the fresh deal_, but the re-deal of each ground packet must be complete before placing cards on the numerals. Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games
Petty, mundane chores and tasks you need to catch up on take up most of your time today. The Sun
During the rush hour the journey may take up to twice as long.
The would-be spaceman took his 37 ft-high Starchaser rocket to Stockport Grammar School to encourage youngsters to follow his lead and take up engineering.
They can take up to two years to germinate. The Sun
He is free to take up one or two non-executive roles outside the banking sector if he wants to. Times, Sunday Times
When we take up an ancient text, seeking to understand it and expecting it to speak to us, deep calling to our deep, we do so with certain presuppositions, inexplicit and unconscious, never with an empty, unprepossessed mind. Circle of understanding
Dindigul farmers called to take up bivoltine cocoon production WN.com - Articles related to Organic squirrel control
The climber will tie into one end of the rope and the belayer will take up slack from the other end using his belaying device.
After three years in Rome, Beltrami moved to Pavia to take up the chair of mathematical physics there.
In the ruined dwellings, Negro pilgrims take up their temporary abode; some of these are settled in Mekka, and their wives prepare the intoxicating liquor made from durra, and called bouza, of which the meaner inhabitants are very fond. Travels in Arabia
Few enter over the age of 30 and although some may retire early and take up positions in private industry and public corporations, there is little traffic in the reverse direction.
He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.
To break the cycle of homelessness, the focus is on encouraging young people to reconcile with their families, to re-engage in community life, and to take up education, training, or employment.
Some systems have a pistol that can take up to ten screws and, as a diestock is not required, insertion is very easy, meaning that operative time is reduced considerably.
Frankly, I had not the temperament to take up a musicological career, even as a secondary pursuit.
The word consume comes from the Latin con - altogether + sumere - to take up, lay hold of, etc. David Michael Bruno
The former world player of the year was due to hang up his boots and take up an ambassadorial role with Ospreys. The Sun
Since the provinces won't, the federal government should take up the students' case.
Lets hope this great result encourages youngsters across Scotland to take up the sport themselves.
The vicarage will become the home of the new Archdeacon of Wiltshire, who is due to take up the post in September.
It simply means that he must give up some other fad or fancy and take up with this last, which, be it here reiterated, is no _fad_. The Automobilist Abroad
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
He must take up the mission of ensuring the nation's security in a rapidly changing international scene, while reinvigorating the economy and stabilizing society.

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