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Common collocations with keep up in American Collocation

keep up phrasal verb

US

work

good work

You’re doing great! Keep up the good work!

rate

momentum
pace

He can’t keep that pace up forever.

payment

payment
repayment

She had been unable to keep up payments on the new loan.

communication

commentary
conversation
correspondence

We met in 1997 and since then we’ve kept up a correspondence.

effort

effort
fight

The longer-term answer must be to keep up the fight to repeal all the anti-union laws.

opposition

opposition

She called on them to keep up their opposition to the war.

pressure

pressure
tension

Unfortunately Wales could not keep up the pressure in the second half.