Sentence examples for already takes up from inspiring English sources

It already takes up 30% of the world's ice-free land and a whopping 70% of its arable land.

Military spending, for example, already takes up a much smaller share of the budget than a few decades ago, as Douglas Elmendorf, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, said last week.

Even though his 4-foot-wide grill already takes up plenty of space in his open kitchen, which also has more conventional equipment, Mr. Rembold said he wished he had gone all fire.

Looking after the 15.4 million people in England with at least one long-term condition already takes up 70% of the NHS's £110bn budget – £77bn – as well as £10.9bn of the £15.5bn spent on social care in England, he says.

The cost of social care, which already takes up more than 40% of the budgets of those councils responsible for it, is projected to grow further as our population ages.

Much more care needs to be delivered in or near people's homes, he says, especially for the 15 million to 17 million patients with one or more long-term conditions such as asthma or heart trouble whose care already takes up 70% of the NHS's budget.

In India, a few startups are already taking up waste recycling on a war footing and converting waste into wealth.

Much of this block is already taken up by a large bulkhead being constructed over entrance ramps to a vehicle security center beneath the World Trade Center.

Most of its equipment budget is already taken up with existing programmes, commissioned long ago with bills to be paid for years to come.

Each of the 28 member states nominates someone to serve in a post for a four-year term, with Luxembourg's spot already taken up by Juncker.

Flights into Britain were also severely disrupted because parking bays were already taken up by aircraft that had been unable to depart.