build up

Example Sentences

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It is the latest acquisition by the Wall Street firm to broaden its offerings to clients outside of traditional investing and furthers Chief Executive David Solomon’s goal of building up the bank’s asset-management division.

From The Wall Street Journal

They are persistent pollutants, meaning they don't degrade easily and instead build up in the environment.

From BBC

“I have quite literally spent 15, 17 years of my life building up the work to get us to this position,” he said told The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal

She said: "I was clear that I wanted to build up that resilience and that is why I took those decisions to get that headroom up to £21.7bn."

From BBC

"I feel that we have been building and building up, this was a controlled performance," he said.

From BBC