How To Use Run-up In A Sentence
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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.
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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,
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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?
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His switch to off-cutters from a reduced run-up suddenly had the ball popping off the wicket and the bat.
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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.
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The parties didn't want to appear anti-democratic in the run-up to next year's presidential election.
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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.
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In the run-up to his trial he had been reduced to doing gardening work and chauffeuring friends to make ends meet.
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Mobile phone companies have reported a massive surge in sales in the run-up to Christmas.
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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
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In short, Miller was the "stovepipe" (a Sy Hersh phrase for unvetted intelligence) for disinformation from the Administration and Ahmed Chalabi about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction on to the front page of the Times in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and just afterwards.
William E. Jackson Jr.: The Satrapy at West 43rd: One Armchair Critic's Disillusionment On The Eve of Full Disclosure
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Many holly trees are cut down or mutilated by people in the run-up to Christmas.
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It signed up its millionth customer in December, and delivered over a million orders in the run-up to Christmas.
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In the run-up to devolution it was widely expected that one of the main challenges would be fiscal constraint.
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Unlike the run-up to the general election, which has seemed interminable.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the moves for exemption are likely to prove highly contentious, coming as they do in the run-up to elections to the Scottish parliament.
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However, they do not expect any radical revision to emerge in the run-up to legislation.
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The workers' councils, or soviets, became increasingly important in the run-up to October 1917.
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What was most striking about the run-up to the peace deal was the morbid fixation on the physical and mental exhaustion of the parties.
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They achieved a tremendous amount in the run-up to devolution and since 1999.
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You could tell from his run-up that he would bowl fast because he looked smooth and was gliding to the crease.
The Sun
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While dining out in the run-up to Christmas, customers at some of Edinburgh and Glasgow's top restaurants will also be able to help homeless people.
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He said it could 'reinflate the bubble we saw in the run-up to the 2008 recession'.
The Sun
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You can't control what other people are feeling either, and in the run-up to competitions they can go pretty doolally.
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We have included some photos of the models participating in the competition and rely on your support as well as media coverage to the run-up of the event as well as seeing you at the grand finales on 31 August 2001.
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Moreover, there's ample evidence that a sizeable percentage of bankruptcy filers engage in quite a lot of strategic behavior in the run-up to bankruptcy.
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The East Coast resorts reported a good summer season, and, despite the problems, York has enjoyed a busy run-up to Christmas.
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The infants enjoyed their traditional run-up to Christmas in the last few weeks of term with their own version of the nativity, performed for their parents.
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I've had conversations with Kofi in the run-up to war, thinking oh, dear, there will be a transcript of this and people will hear what I'm saying.
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The North's new Electoral Fraud Act may disenfranchise some voters in the run-up to the Assembly elections, according to the parties there.
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But one dispute remains unresolved: the balance between positive and negative campaigning in the run-up to polling day.
Times, Sunday Times
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This will help stabilize international exchange rates, resolve the ongoing cycles of global financial crises and investment bubbles, short-circuit the run-up in gas and food prices, and unlock the frozen credit system.
Reagan Had the Recipe for Success. Let's Follow It
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Victims of online fraud could find it harder to recover their losses as banks and building societies brace themselves for a surge in crime in the run-up to Christmas.
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You could tell from his run-up that he would bowl fast because he looked smooth and was gliding to the crease.
The Sun
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The raid was part of an Manchester Evening News-backed crackdown by the city council on unlicensed firework sales in the run-up to Bonfire Night.
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Romans invoked ancient Neolithic fetial law -- which looks a lot like our hallowed rituals (going back to the Mexican War) and the rehearsed run-up to Iraq.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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In the run-up to Obama's picking a secretary, two sides formed in a debate over the desiderata for a secretary and might have duked it out, but only one side was permitted to throw punches in public.
Gerald Bracey: The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond
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Absent an uptick in trading activity, or another run-up in commodity prices, Glencore will be hard-pressed to achieve 2011 earnings of $6.4 billion, as forecast by banks associated with its IPO.
Glencore's Slow Start
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There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault.
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Politicians of all parties are doing us a huge disservice in the run-up to the referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just a few months ago the run-up to such an occasion would have had the wires of Wall Street's vigilantes humming.
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Politicians of all parties are doing us a huge disservice in the run-up to the referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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She said officers were issuing alcohol abuse advice at every opportunity in the run-up to Christmas, including highlighting the heightened risk to those who pre-load.
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Still, in the run-up to Christmas it can be useful to be offered unsolicited products for sale.
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It showed the disease was still prevalent in the run-up to autumn and had not been killed off by recent warm weather, he said.
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That said, it seems to me that there has been a sustained run-up in average fuel costs in the last 7-8 years, and I would be interested in knowing whether that had any impact on utilization or whether the long-term empirical elasticity is as poor as the (presumably) short-term 10%-1% ratio.
Matthew Yglesias » Taxes: Still the Best Bet
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The run-up to this election has been low-key and characterised by a more adult attitude to electioneering.
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Cotswold police are mounting a major offensive against violent crime in the run-up to Christmas.
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Filed in March 2009, the federal-court lawsuit accused Wells Fargo of "institutionalized, systemic racism" in its subprime-mortgage lending, saying the San Francisco bank "steered" African-Americans toward "less favorable loans" in the run-up to the recent financial crisis.
NAACP Will Drop Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo
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By contrast, in the run-up to the war, he appeared to be straight, direct and sincere.
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The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
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That prospect is spooking Japan's markets in the run-up to Upper House elections on July 11.
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I am by no means a pop music fan but in the run-up to Christmas it seems the army of plebs who buy this bilge lose any last remnant of taste and self-respect they ever had.
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He had been an influential spokesman of the left since the 1950s, but his reputation suffered greatly in the run-up to the winter of discontent.
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In the run-up to her death psychiatrists deemed she suffered from a condition known as erotomania in which people believe others to be in love with them.
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'None of your "paper-mashy," one brick thick, run-up-to-tumble-down houses,' said Mr. Timbs with satisfaction, which was certainly quite true.
My New Home
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The Dow pulled back a bit today following a big run-up over the past few weeks.
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Scores of motorists have been caught drink-driving across North Yorkshire in the run-up to Christmas.
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Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading in the run-up to Christmas.
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In an increasingly tetchy conference call with reporters, Steiner denied that he was sounding "chippy" about the negative coverage from the press and the City in the run-up to the float.
Ocado shares slump on stock market debut
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The pair will share the stage at Market Gate to launch the town centre's festive frolics which will keep shoppers entertained in the run-up to Christmas.
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January 20th, 2010 at 6: 13 pm tombaker says: same old righty jibber-jabber. they sound like they did in the run-up to invading iraq.
Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war.
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During the run-up to the 2004 election, polls indicated that the vast majority of the population condemned all forms of coercion.
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Expect more stuff and more links and clips and info in the run-up to the show.
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His run-up was practical rather than graceful and his slingy action was not a model for aspiring young bowlers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last year 50 people were arrested in York and Selby in the run-up to Christmas for incidents ranging from drunken domestic disputes to assaults and public disorder.
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TODD: Wilkerson said he would also look at the run-up to war, and what he called the doctoring of intelligence.
CNN Transcript May 10, 2007
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The company believes the products will sell well in the run-up to Christmas.
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Both explore who said what to whom, or who made up what and why, in the run-up to the war.
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In the run-up to the general election, politicians in all three parties convinced themselves that even to talk about renegotiating our membership was extreme, swivel-eyed, blah blah.
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Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading in the run-up to Christmas.
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Leaflets, reply postcards and background information will drop on people's doormats in the run-up to Christmas to help city politicians set the council tax level.
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Unsung heroes of the Second World War are being urged to take part in special commemorations in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the war ending.
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Potentially dangerous bonfires will also be removed in the run-up to November 5.
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And Labour MPs have not just muscled this off the agenda in the run-up to the General Election expected next summer only to see it reappear in the autumn.
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The much awaited fashion week is yet to start, but the run-up to the Capital's annual dose of razzmatazz is almost as busy.
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Pole vaulters need long run-ups.
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We settled in, completed our checks, and taxied to the catapult - tension, run-up, wipeout and lights on.
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Watching the all-night-long toil during the run-up is evidence of quite the opposite, however.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the run-up to the 1960 presidential campaign, they crisscrossed the country together, discovering, as Mr. Sorensen wrote in a 2008 memoir, "Counselor," that they "enjoyed each other's company, joking, talking politics and planning his future.
Ted Sorensen, JFK's speechwriter and defender, dies at 82
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Outright batsmen joined the queue, and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.
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The longer and faster your run-up is, the higher you can jump.
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In the run-up to the conference, a range of varied groups had issued calls for demonstrations and meetings.
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Abraham was a senior officer during the dictatorships of both Duvalier fils and Prosper Avril, then himself briefly held the reins of power in the run-up to the 1991 elections.
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But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event.
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Fighters, transport planes, bombers and helicopters will fill the skies over RAF Fairford in the run-up to the air show this weekend.
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James Murray, an analyst at the web metrics firm, expects traffic to keep rising in the run-up to the wedding, although it might not achieve that initial peak again.
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Despite being behind schedule, I conducted an unhurried preflight, added a quart of oil and found nothing abnormal whatsoever during the subsequent engine start, run-up and takeoff.
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Everyone is very busy during the run-up to publication.
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As is customary, much was made of the mutual antipathy between the two fighters in the run-up to the contest.
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Were they too docile and too compliant, and did they fail to ask the skeptical questions and raise the objections they should have in the run-up to war?
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In the run-up to the event, we have had only nighly naps of 3-4 hours for one week.
Niamah!!!
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In the run-up to the summit, Mr. Draghi's use of the term "fiscal compact" had spurred hopes that the ECB would be prepared to engage in massive buying of bonds from distressed euro zone states, an interpretation he discouraged on Thursday.
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School plays and concerts were great occasions, when nerves became frayed in the run-up to the big night.
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He said it could 'reinflate the bubble we saw in the run-up to the 2008 recession'.
The Sun
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City analysts feared the global economic gloom would affect consumers in the run-up to Christmas but they have instead witnessed a surge in spending.
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With each new leak, more evidence of the dirty dealings in the run-up to the war is exposed.
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This unathletic impression was confirmed by his bowling run-up, or rather his lack of run-up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prime minister's spin doctors paid great attention to women's magazines during the run-up to the poll.
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Often, in the run-up to Christmas, it's listeners looking for the best place to by a gadget on line on the cheap.
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Party hostesses need to leave a clear run-up to their cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last Wednesday, Klayman held a press conference outside the cartel's quarters where he waved a gas pump nozzle at OPEC calling the nozzle a "smoking gun" that ties OPEC to the current financial disaster in the US Their artificial run-up in oil prices earlier this year set the stage for the economic problems we're now having, he said.
The Reality Check
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Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading in the run-up to Christmas.
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The chief executive of the world's largest bank presided over one calamity after another in the run-up to his demise.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have timed the opening to coincide with the run-up to Christmas and it seems to be paying dividends.
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There has been strike and counterstrike in the run-up to the court battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the finest sights in all sport is a bowler with a smooth rhythmic run-up delivering the ball with an arched back and a flawless straight-arm action.
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The divers were able to confirm that the shell, packed with lyddite explosive, was fired either by HMS Swiftsure or HMS Triumph on exercise in the run-up to the Great War.
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The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
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They stuck flags in a long sidehill, outlining a brute of a track, including two steep run-ups and a low-grade grind up heavy Kentucky Bluegrass to the backside of the course.
Boulder Cup blends `cross with a touch of modern Americana
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The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
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The stocks had a fast run-up
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A quick whiz around the New York streets today showed how little people were shopping in the run-up to Christmas.
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Trading standards teams have seized thousands of litres of fake booze in the run-up to the year's busiest night.
The Sun
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In the run-up to the mixed-lot sale, Sotheby's held two ‘single owner’ auctions in which 296 works consigned by these two institutions were deaccessioned.
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The town apparently ran out of the popular hooters in the run-up to the big day today (Friday).
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The run-up to an election is known as "purdah", during which there is a ban on public money being spent on policies or announcements that could affect the result.
Evening Standard - Home
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Myth or not, the phrase bids fair to be the political thumb-suckers’ pontification of choice for the run-up to the pre-primary preliminaries.
No Uncertain Terms
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The run-up to the 30th anniversary produced a rash of new revelations and bitter polemics.
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Judging from the crowds thronging Scotland's streets in the run-up to Christmas, spending is up 3% on last year and there is plenty of good cheer about.
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Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading in the run-up to Christmas.
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The consumer-financial bureau has rule-writing, supervisory and enforcement authority over banks and a hodgepodge of so-called nonbank firms that, in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, escaped regulation of any sort.
MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
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Hounslow is trying to ensure that all outstanding work is actioned during the run-up to the implementation of the new computer system.
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Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
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The factory shop will initially create two new jobs and will be open seven days a week in the run-up to Christmas.
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The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
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In the run-up to the election he described plans for an arbitration scheme to judge banks when they refuse lending to small businesses as "dotty" and politically motivated.
Richard Lambert steps down early as CBI director general
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While they will surely attempt to show a semblance of unity in the run-up to May's poll, there can be little doubt that tensions between the two camps and their supporters will hit the headlines again soon.
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The company believes the products will sell well in the run-up to Christmas.
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In Vancouver, where construction and road maintenance proliferates in the run-up to the Olympics, work crews are allowed to use their own "flagmen" to direct traffic with "Slow" and
Thestar.com - Home Page
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First, it made a total hash of regulation in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Pakistani has one of the most impressive run-ups - long, fluent and rhythmical - in world cricket.
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The "away day" will set the party's strategy in the run-up to the next General Election.
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Which augurs ill for the present time, inasmuch as no one can believe that the socio-economic problems that underlay the riots in 1965 and 1992 in Los Angeles alone were anything but minor in comparison to the dislocations that full-blown hyperinflation or depression – or even the run-ups to those conditions – will bring about in contemporary society throughout America.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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Every member of the Cabinet has been scheduled to visit the constituency in the run-up to the election.
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First, it made a total hash of regulation in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pupils at Paxcroft Primary School are preparing to send and receive cards in the run-up to Saturday, when thousands of people across west Wiltshire will profess their true feelings to loved ones.
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And there is less sympathy for well-educated IT workers, many of whom benefited from a dramatic run-up in salaries during the bubble.
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Slow drop in pitches where dibbly dobblers can look unplayable, more rain interruptions than hot meals, gale force winds disturbing bowler's run-ups and grounds that don't have any practice nets, because they are primarily rugby stadiums, are just some of the conditions to which this young Indian camp must quickly adjust.
Cricket365
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His missus has refused him all access to his mobile phone during matches as a precaution in the run-up to surgery on his dodgy ticker.
The Sun
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In the run-up to Christmas Eve, give them pride of place in the warmth of the living room, where they will suffuse the air with a heady, sweet perfume.
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We were on the bill as part of a monthlong run-up to the MOBO Awards Music of Black Origin at Royal Albert Hall in October, and the Cafe was showcasing selected artists.
Fallin’ Up
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Although times are still tough there, inflation has been tamed and the foundation stones are in place for the country to transform itself in the run-up to joining the EU.
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But there's a second kind of criticism that says the political run-up to this thing was pretty ugly.
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In the run-up to the summit, Draghi's use of the term "fiscal compact" had spurred investor hopes that the ECB would engage in massive buying of bonds from distressed euro zone states.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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He said his wife Samantha was "eclipsing" him on the campaign trail as the couple appeared in the first of a series of online videos planned for the run-up to the general election.
EDP24 News
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However, many of them are obviously disenchanted with the process in the run-up to the summit.
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In the run-up to the poll, human rights groups accuse Beijing of creating a "climate of fear" aimed at skewing the result.
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The run-up in share prices before the correction did not follow the same pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
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The knowledge that someone as famous as Electra had placed her trust in me buoyed me up in the run-up to Valentine's Day.
RESCUING ROSE
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Scott Siverling, 34, has taken what he calls the "biomechanical perspective" to his first run-up.
The Lactic Acid Skyscraper Test
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The longer and faster your run-up is, the higher you can jump.
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Brownback states in his letter that Ricciardone "downplayed" the Bush administration's pro-democracy efforts in Egypt and "did not favor" a strong effort to work with Iraqi opposition groups in the run-up to the invasion.
State Dept. sponsors trip for imam connected to N.Y. mosque project
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They remembered him as aggressive and tireless, the swaggering menace of his run-up, the India ink mop of Brylcreemed hair ruffled by the breeze and those shoulders broadening to Superman dimensions when he delivered the ball in a fluid, side-on action of textbook beauty.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.
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Sir Richard Sykes, the Huddersfield-born City grandee, is in a typically frank mood after his unceremonious ousting from Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation ENRC, just three years after the obscure Kazakh mining group hired him to confer credibility on the run-up to its London flotation.
Sir Richard Sykes: voted out, but not down
