Example sentences of "up the [adj] slopes " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather . |
| 2 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 3 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 4 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 5 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 6 | The journey is scenically attractive , and Trogen is a neat village where white-fronted , red-roofed villas spread up the green slopes of the Gibris . |
| 7 | Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west . |
| 8 | Comprising three tiers of small chambers rising up the steep slopes of the Quirinal Hill , the markets were completed by Emperor Trajan in 112 AD and formed the commercial centre of ancient Rome . |
| 9 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |