Sentence examples for destroyed up from inspiring English sources

Deer have destroyed up to 40percentt of local cropland, he said, as well as suburban landscaping.

A warehouse fire has destroyed up to $40 million worth of high-priced wine and champagne, including the collections of several vintners and connoisseurs.

Georgia, which said today it had downed 10 Russian aircraft and destroyed up to 30 tanks, maintains it is holding Tskhinvali.

From 1968 to 1984 the Library of Congress destroyed up to 300,000 books worth about $10 million, Mr. Baker says in "Doublefold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper" (Random House).

In the war with Kurdish guerrillas fighting for independence in the 1990s, the country's security forces destroyed up to 4,000 villages and settlements – often by burning them to the ground.

To compound matters, the JLR was hit by a one-off charge of £245m to cover the cost of a chemical explosion at Tianjin port in August, which damaged or destroyed up to 5,800 of its vehicles.

The starfish preys on coral and is responsible for destroying up to 40% of the reef.

But documents that the State Department gave Moscow in January said the full system would be able to destroy up to 50 enemy warheads.

In Keswick, in the north Lakes, the ground floor of Amos Doron's bike shop was totally flooded on 6 December, destroying up to £70,000 of stock.

According to researchers in Vancouver, these tiny viruses cause a collective trillion trillion successful infections per second, in the process destroying up to forty per cent of all bacterial cells in the ocean every single day.

(Less happily, with no need to stop for the harvest, wars in cassava-growing lands can be continuous).Now two viruses cassava mosaic disease and brown streak disease are destroying up to half the crop in areas they infest.