Sentence examples for last run-up from inspiring English sources

Another is demography: there are fewer young buyers than during the last run-up in house prices, in the late 1980s.

At the peak of the last run-up, in March 2000, $40 billion rushed into stock funds.

Like a marathon runner who pushed too far or a basketball player with an unseen condition set off by one last run up the court, his heart gave out.

The volatility is also frightening to folks who might have gotten in on the last run up only to find themselves back at the start.

Oil prices compounded this spike in the cost of outsourcing: During the last run up in oil prices prior to the financial crisis in 2008, investment bank CIBC calculated that a $1 rise in world oil prices translated to a 1% rise in transport costs.With oil around $120 a barrel, the cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the U.S. Eastern seaboard jumped to $8,000 from $3,000 in 2000.

The game had been interrupted mid-season, in August, in the last breathless run-up to the play-offs.

Thursday was the last public run-up to the formal proceedings to determine whether the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point should continue to operate through 2033 and 2035.

For example, the last great run-up of the yen from 100 to 80 to the dollar in the spring of 1995 was linked to a fierce dispute over cars America was demanding numerical targets for imports of US car parts into the Japanese market.

The selling was so great that the yield on the ten-year Treasury, which rises as mortgage bond prices fall, climbed faster than it did in the last great run-up, in 1994.

A growing body of research into the last commodity price run-up, in 2008, has turned up little evidence that investment futures funds were a primary cause.

After a run-up lasting 12 years, James Cameron has taken an almighty flying leap into the third dimension.