The waterbed took up a good deal of the floor space.
The operation would take up a good deal of the morning, but she was prepared for that.
He seemed to take up a great deal of space in her life, enough for multitudes.
"I'm afraid we are taking up a great deal of your time."
And they understand the book as a physical object, one that should take up a great deal of space.
Another environmental concern is that traditional burial takes up a great deal of space.
But simply learning your way around the system would take up a good deal of your life.
The positions that we coordinated in the Council took up a great deal of time.
But all these things took up a great deal of time.
I had taken up a great deal of the surface with this spread.