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"take up your time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about something that requires a significant amount of time and effort. For example, "Studying for midterms has been taking up a lot of my time."
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Rio Ferdinand: I should get started, because I don't want to take up your time.
Doctor Igwe cut in, "OK, let's not take up your time.
He's got over $100 billion of tax cuts and incentives". So I'm not going to take up your time tonight.
Instead, they take up your time and consume your attention at precisely the time of day that most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
Untitled second and third sons, jealous lovers, ambitious stepmothers, rival dukes — dealing with these are what take up your time as a medieval noble (or should if you're smart, unlike King Flann).
Sure, it will take up your time, and a tiny bit of your concentration, but what you get in return is a hug on a plate and, on dark days like these, who wants more?
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Professionally, what's taking up your time?
Why am I taking up your time with this?
Students: Tell us about the games that have taken up your time.
But we've taken up your time and we mustn't do that".
"Sorry for taking up your time," says the ad, and promptly desists from further pestering.
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