The phrase "take up as" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a new activity or role that one is starting to engage in or adopt. Here is an example: He decided to take up cycling as a form of exercise and bought a new bike. In this sentence, "take up as" is used to indicate that the person is starting to engage in cycling as a new activity.
Environmentalists also object to the vast tracts of land courses take up, as well as the amount of water needed to keep them properly irrigated.
"We've had good discussions on this all along, and this was a good topic to take up as soon as we got back to the table," Schneider said.
Considering Ms. Wintour's oft-pretzeled posture, though, Mr. Ashby pointed out: "If anyone could take up as much room as she wants, it's her.
Gov. Rick Perry, who appoints the commissioners, just declared that strengthening private property rights was a "legislative emergency" for state lawmakers to take up as soon as possible.
In the Mediterranean, plants may go three months without water, but as soon as there's a storm, they quickly take up as much as possible.
But preserving tropical forests could take up as much as 30% of current global emissions, and is desperately needed to stay within the world's carbon budget.
It turns out that decision-making is also very hard on your neural resources and that little decisions appear to take up as much energy as big ones.
The images are rarely allowed to take up as much as half of the available space on the screen, and the rest is either darkness (making us conscious that we're watching a movie) or other, smaller images.
Piven — who made his name as the high-energy agent Ari Gold, in the HBO series "Entourage" — doesn't take up as much room here as he does on television, which is as it should be.
Dealing with their quirks (endearing or otherwise) can take up as much time as actually working.
Nishikawa believes Yamanaka is planning to compare the characteristics of iPS and ES cells, a theme Nishikawa expects other groups to take up as well.
