Sentence examples for destroying up from inspiring English sources

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

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.

These cuts and revenue increases would replace the arbitrary reductions of the sequester, which does not distinguish between good and bad programs or pay attention to the heavy damage it would inflict on the economy, destroying up to a million jobs.

Matthew ravaged the country last week, claiming at least 1,000 lives and destroying up to 90percentt of some areas, according to estimates released over the weekend.

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).

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