Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 2 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 3 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 4 | Coming up to the first ever and only race in Dallas , a race run on a track that was breaking up and in the most intense heat imaginable , neither McLaren scored in a race that was brilliantly won by Keke Rosberg . |
| 5 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |