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Discover LudwigThe phrase "take up attention" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to capture or hold someone's focus or interest. Example: The loud noise from the construction site next door took up all of my attention, making it hard for me to concentrate on my work.
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Our findings suggest that while voluntary health insurance combined with investments in health care supply can increase health care use and financial protection among those that take up the insurance, attention should be paid to potential unintended effects on the – typically sizeable– group of people who do not enroll in the insurance.
One way or another, periods take up women's attention for up to 10 days a month, whether it's bleeding or mood changes.
But, he cautioned, "[it] must not take up all the attention of the synod which is not a synod of tired, western churches.
Since Facebook is designed to take up as much attention as possible, those who find alternate ways to gain the benefits of Facebook will often discover they have more free time.
Let's face it... the consumer market is saturated with products, brands and businesses that take up space and attention from millions of consumers everyday.
So why would someone so obviously uncomfortable with attention take up acting?
Events like this [UCLG forum] take up a lot of attention, but don't leave much behind for Bilbao culture.
In his letter, Rubin reassures Clinton that the issue need not take up much of his attention.
I call this trend in psychological theory The Automaticity Juggernaut, and to understand it we have to take up the problem of attention and consciousness.
It has been happening oh, for ever, for the simple reason that kids take up a lot of attention, so not as much time can be spent focusing on ourselves.
(Bet you couldn't see that one coming, eh?) His life is loosely divided between seeing patients — which doesn't really seem to take up much of his attention and may, indeed, be merely an excuse for the author to drop the names of Freud, Lacanand R. D. Laing — and schmoozing with a wilfully diverse and yet never quite diverting cast of characters.
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