Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas fairly large areas in the Yorkshire Dales and up to the Scottish Borders were not heavily forested , the Teesdale region had this peculiar sugar limestone , creating a very thin , calcium-rich soil which never produced dense grass cover . |
2 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
3 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |
4 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
5 | The RSPB estimates that , on average , up to 1.5 million waders and up to a million wildfowl spend the winters on the UK coasts , about 80 per cent of them on estuaries . |