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a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time
market runups are followed by corrections
a runup in interest rates - the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed
How To Use run-up In A Sentence
- In the run-up to the finals, police at airports, rail stations and ports will be on the look-out for anyone trying to sneak to Portugal.
- Crude futures saw their last significant leg down in the wake of the Memorial Day holiday, when a postholiday decline followed a preholiday run-up in prices. Oil Falls $5.33 a Barrel,
- Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup. Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
- His switch to off-cutters from a reduced run-up suddenly had the ball popping off the wicket and the bat.
- Surgeons say politicians are turning to them to wipe out bags under their eyes and freshening their faces in the run-up to March's presidential elections.
- The parties didn't want to appear anti-democratic in the run-up to next year's presidential election.
- The World Cup overlaps the cricketing season here: the run-up to the sweltering summer months when sun-baked rice fields double as cricket stadiums in the suburban areas.
- In the run-up to his trial he had been reduced to doing gardening work and chauffeuring friends to make ends meet.
- Mobile phone companies have reported a massive surge in sales in the run-up to Christmas.
- But what's worth noting is that the thrust of the message is one MoveOn was making well before the run-up to the election. MoveOn Puts Out Closing Ad, Casting Corporate Donors Against Average Citizens