Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August .
2 As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur .
3 BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris .
4 The move was seen to be a response to the average daily INRO market price indicator being below the " may buy " levels in the six months leading up to the review .
5 When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time .
6 When the system was tested during the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly on each occasion .
7 Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia .
8 And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen .
9 Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border .
10 ‘ We have 13 students coming up to the end of the general SVQs in business administration at level III .
11 I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that .
12 Chen Kaige 's ‘ Farewell to my Concubine ’ , the other joint winner of the Golden Palm , finds its climax in great demonstration scenes , but deals mainly with two artists growing up within the Peking Opera .
13 The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office .
14 Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff .
15 The two teams lining up in the centre circle .
16 The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became .
17 It consists of four Sundays leading up to the great Feast of Christmas , four weeks of waiting and expectation .
18 Four bars leading up to the chorus using the same notes as before , but a more basic pattern and an octave down , until the chorus comes in loud and heavy , a complete contrast with its barrages of driving sixteenth notes .
19 Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend .
20 Over seven weeks leading up to the big day , Jim Nash , Lorna Powell and Agnes Ramsay had to find out about marquees , promotional material , advertising and food .
21 He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street .
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