Sentence examples similar to taking up spots from inspiring English sources

For a few hours, as owners raced for the airport and reporters took up spots at the hotel bar -- it offered the best vantage point to catch the owners coming and going, really -- the N.F.L. was in a bizarre state of limbo, waiting to exhale except for that very real whiff of chaos wafting through the air.

Taking up the prime spot by the beach.

"I've been getting reports that these cars are taking up parking spots," said Betty Braton, chairwoman of Community Board 10.

From the top 20, 16 are in the US, with the UK taking up three spots and Canada taking one other.

Netbooks are selling well; they dominate Amazon's top 20 bestsellers list, taking up 15 spots.

"Now they're probably taking up the spot of somebody who, 10 years ago, would have been writing straight romance".

Senator Lazarus has stumbled over a number of words in his chamber speeches since taking up his spot.

Now he is poised to make good on expectations that he could be golf's next superstar, taking up a spot vacated by the faltering Woods.

The aim was to deter people from taking up a spot for too long, said Victor Rosen, the assistant commissioner who heads the Transportation Department's Parking Bureau.

Teams do not start paying players until the regular season, and Perez is not taking up a spot on the 25-man roster, as he was last year when he refused a minor league assignment.

"I guess we couldn't really justify me taking up a spot and going all that way if I wasn't fit to play".