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1 The longer and faster your run-up is, the higher you can jump.

2 The company believes the products will sell well in the run-up to Christmas.

3 The bowler started his run-up.

4 Pole vaulters need long run-ups.

5 Everyone is very busy during the run-up to publication.

6 The people at the toy shop expect to shift a lot of stock in the run-up to Christmas.

7 When I began to compete again, I was struggling with my run-up.

8 Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading in the run-up to Christmas.

9 Through the summer runup in technology stock prices,[www.Sentencedict.com] executives at the on-line service provider sat tight.

10 However, they do not expect any radical revision to emerge in the run-up to legislation.

11 Or would be busy sorting things out at school with the run-up to half-term.

12 It certainly knocks spots off anything attempted by the newly-Thatcherising Conservatives in the run-up to the 1979 election.

13 Outright batsmen joined the queue, and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.

14 The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.

15 Standing up to voters in the run-up to the general election is another matter.

16 In the run-up to the election, terrorists have intensified their activities.

17 Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.

18 Competition has hit a new high with many attractive offers in the run-up to Christmas.

19 This probably sounds like a run-up to a full-scale attack on Oxford and academic knowledge.

20 The prime minister's spin doctors paid great attention to women's magazines during the run-up to the poll.

21 Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.

22 "With banking rumours surfacing, it feels like the runup to Lehman's collapse, where banks don't trust each other, " said Commerzbank strategist Christoph Rieger.

23 Later, sales of bullets in the runup to New Year's Eve were prohibited.

24 This spending increase was largely fueled by the runup in house prices, which allowed home-owning Americans to borrow against the cost of their homes.

25 The runup in business school applications during the recession has created a windfall for essay writers.

26 The market's runup of nearly 60 percent over six months might have also caused some investors to use the Fed's statement as reason to book profits, he added.

27 The country's consumer power has been particularly evident in the runup to the start of the lunar new year – a peak of shopping similar to the pre-Christmas splurge in the UK and US.

28 Barack Obama has not had much to celebrate in the runup to his 50th birthday, although he must wish his US poll ratings, currently 43% approval, outscored his years.

29 Line 10, opened to the media for the first time yesterday, is one of the many huge construction projects being unveiled in the runup to the Olympic games in August.

30 Some think the politburo member hopes the high-profile campaign will help to elevate him in the runup to 2012, when the transition of power to China's next generation of leaders is due to take place.