The phrase "take up resources" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to using or consuming something, usually resources of some sort. For example, you could say: "The new IT system will take up a lot of the company's resources."
Does increased defense spending take up resources that would otherwise be put to more productive use?
Our worry is that it will take up resources and won't be effective".
When your land is precious, he said, "There's a great benefit in that you have clean power coming from solar, and it doesn't take up resources for farming or mining".
It may pursue numerous smaller acquisitions which take up resources but add little to earnings or it may choose to use its strong cash flows for increased direct returns to shareholders, via either share buybacks or dividend yields.
The NGBR is allowed to take up resources from GBR class if available but the opposite is not allowed.
While there's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, all of those separate software packages take up resources and require additional IT attention.
"If we let fires burn, it takes up resources to watch them, and we don't have the luxury to do that," says Ken Pimlott, the director of California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
Instead of speeding the screening process for everyone, critics say the TSA PreCheck is worsening the delays by taking up resources for a small group of travelers.
"The ultimately pointless King v. Burwell litigation took up resources that could have been devoted to making more people aware of the ACA's benefits, particularly from advocates.
This means that a plant is most competitive if it takes up resources only from the home cell, where it cannot be suppressed by neighbours.
That means they can install smaller indie or open source apps on their server — and not have to worry about giant corporates taking those apps away, i.e. if they decide it's not worth their money to have them taking up resource.
