Sentence examples for run up of from inspiring English sources

Given the fast price run up of US farmland, though, some fear a bubble is forming.

For comparison, the tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast in 2011 had a maximum run up of about 40 meters.

Barrick has been a distressed seller of assets, and the sharp run up of African Barrick as it works to turn its business around headed up by new management clearly opens the door to sell some of Barrick's holding.

And there was no explanation for this extraordinary run up of prices in the fundamentals of the housing market.

Saudi Arabia, given its enormous reserves, could readily produce significant additional quantities of oil in order to abate the steep run up of oil prices.

Think about it: No assemblage of regular citizens would have chosen to shift good land to feed cars when 18,000 children die of hunger every day, or allowed unchecked, unaccountable speculation to push the run up of prices.

Even after the run-up of the past few months it is still only $243 billion.

However, hopes that the decline would continue, easing the price run-up of recent years, were dashed on Thursday.

Because of the run-up of the 1990s, stocks have had a strong total return for that 16-year period.

He planted down his big boots determinedly in a run-up of modest length though undeniable aggression.

"If we get another run-up of gas prices, G.M. could be sitting like Sylvester with Tweety Bird in his mouth.