At 1,500 square feet, the apartment takes up about half of the building.

It seemed to take up about half of the ocean.

Commercial areas in a city can take up about 5% of a city's land.

His 15 year long reign takes up about one third of the entire work.

But the proposal took up only about 2 minutes of the 17-minute speech.

And they took up about 15 or 20 minutes of my act.

The temple took up about a third of that space.

There are usually three of these, taking up about half the show.

In the early 1970's, they took up about 150 square feet, 9.3 percent of the home.

Well I took it up about six or seven feet, you know, from the ground floor.