Forests sequester carbon in the form of wood and other biomass as the trees grow, taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (see carbon cycle).
Espadín, one of the easiest to grow, takes up to a decade to mature, and each piña — the usable core, stripped of its spiky blades — yields only about ten bottles of mezcal.
Jewelry manufacturing continued to grow, taking up the slack and employing many of the city's new immigrants, coming from Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish backgrounds.
The lower limit was set because of the growing take-up of small "SMS" loans, which are given within minutes by sending a text.
Growing settlements take up more and more of the land the Palestinians want for their state and make partition increasingly difficult.
21 years after Jimmy Carter delivered his speech, a movement is growing to take up his mission to "commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit".
Repeated rhythms are "infected" by small deviations that grow and take up lives of their own.
My remaining kidney will grow to take up the slack of the one that has been removed, so I'll be able do everything I can do now.
Since 1992, the business has grown to take up its own corner of the barn, which it shares with a 32-year-old mule named Jack.
It is possible that alternative provision run by the private sector could grow to take up the slack as people leave NHS hospitals.
