Sentence examples for built up about from inspiring English sources

Stores of knowledge were built up about such new and exotic places, as demonstrated by the Greek philosopher and world traveler Herodotus in the 5th century bc.

The largely successful dual support system of research funding should stay and none of the learning built up about how to conduct the REF should be lost.

The final scene features a reversal of the expectations built up about the two players' lives, and an extremely promising stage debut by Nico Mirallegro as an open-mouthed, wide-eyed, up-for-anything hotel porter.

Merely by becoming president, he would dispel many of the myths built up about America: it would be far harder for the spreaders of hate in the Islamic world to denounce the Great Satan if it were led by a black man whose middle name is Hussein; and far harder for autocrats around the world to claim that American democracy is a sham.

Very soon an immense traffic jam of landing craft and amphibious vehicles built up about 1,000 yards offshore.

[Its lyrics] are basically saying that I had these walls built up about love; you completely tore them down and when I look at you I see your halo, it's really beautiful".

We built up to about 50 lawns a week.

But the camaraderie that the soldiers had built up — complaining about the Army, drinking, doing drugs, and shooting on the range — fell apart under pressure.

You weren't stupid, just hoping to meet someone nice, and the way he built up the excitement about his impending visit was clever.

These clusters were built up of grains of size about 14 nm.

Or they were infected before they built up immunity -- it takes about two weeks.