Sentence examples for run up more from inspiring English sources

He is said to have run up more than £1m in lawyers' bills.

Between them they have run up more than 100 years in the West End.

"A country like that cannot run up more and more debt," the senior aide said.

She was 38, and she and her husband had run up more than $200,000 in student debts from college and graduate school.

It has lost money in all but two of the past ten years, and was expected to run up more losses this year and next.

But Porsche is reluctant to run up more debt in pursuit of more VW shares, especially if it is blocked, politically, from making important decisions with them.

Nassau ran up more than $1 billion in debt for tax refunds over a decade or so.

The previous comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., ran up more than $600,000 in sanitation fines in his 2009 race for mayor.

He did what most borrowers do in this situation, debt counselors say: he ran up more credit card debt.

According to Pennsylvania records, he was charged in 2003 with running up more than $6,000 charges on stolen credit cards.

Mr. LaMagna said he ran up more than $135,000 in debt, shuffling balances among 45 credit cards.