Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 2 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 3 | You only feel the surge and turbulence of the ocean in about the top metre , so you can stay with the life and sunshine with ease . |
| 4 | The size of the societies falls away very sharply after the top five , and even more so below the top 20 , so risks in a merger are much more limited . |
| 5 | Yeah , well I mean , that 's a , that 's a difficult one , inside information , when you get down below the top ranks there are lots of people in the mid mi medium-ranks who would know about insider dealing , and I 'm sure use it . |
| 6 | Only amongst the top band did a substantial number of pupils perform the incorrect version 8 ÷ 3 rather than 3 ÷ 8 . |
| 7 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 8 | He tucked the ticket down into the top pocket of his official tunic . |
| 9 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 10 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 11 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 12 | The heavy rain , for hundreds of years , has washed the rich chemicals , such as nitrogen and calcium , down from the top layer , or A horizon , into the lower layer , or B horizon . |
| 13 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 14 | Down from the top floor bounced the offspring of Mr and Mrs Beavis , the girls in nightdresses , the boys in nightshirts . |
| 15 | It also has the effect of raising the back edge so as to hide the joints at the bottom and provide a start for the graceful curve down from the top edge . |
| 16 | He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk . |
| 17 | Robinson jumped down from the top bunk . |
| 18 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 19 | Erm , so in the top left of this spreadsheet I 've got some documentation , below that some blank rows , a key parameter section here . |
| 20 | There is enough light for photosynthesis only in the top 100 m or less ; the region known as the euphotic zone . |
| 21 | In the case of triazophos , the pesticide was normally found only in the top centimetre of the carrot and would be destroyed by cooking . |
| 22 | Propagation is done by stem-cuttings , especially from the top half of the plant . |
| 23 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 24 | He sat down on the top step of the landing outside numbers 3 and 4 . |
| 25 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |
| 26 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 27 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 28 | If a block of Pycoma were lit simultaneously all over the top surface , say by a fast-running sheet-fuse , the combustion zone would travel slowly down through the block . |
| 29 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 30 | She would smile and be lighthearted and welcome them all back and have a bathroom put in on the top floor . |