Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ann was already half-way up the primitive stairway , a series of flat stones jutting out from the inner surface of the highest section of wall . |
| 2 | Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres . |
| 3 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 4 | The sounds they produce in their larynx may reach as far up the ultrasonic scale as 200 000 hertz , allowing them to detect objects as tiny as a midget 20 metres away . |
| 5 | ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . ) |
| 6 | Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof . |