run up
Example Sentences
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“I just had a surfer run up to the truck,” a lifeguard said on dispatch audio, “he’s saying there’s a dog that’s on the jetty.”
From Los Angeles Times
So, the tense process of the Treasury waiting on every bit of number crunching from the OBR will happen only in the run up to a full Budget.
From BBC
In January, he expects “either upgrades in the run up to earnings season beginning in mid-January or big beats.”
From MarketWatch
In January, he expects “either upgrades in the run up to earnings season beginning in mid-January or big beats.”
From MarketWatch
It also runs up against more than a century of American conventional wisdom about fire safety.
From Los Angeles Times
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