Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 3 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 4 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The weeks leading up to the seventh round were busy with the launch of various diplomatic initiatives . |
| 9 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 10 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 11 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |