Sentence examples for steep spur from inspiring English sources

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The final obstacle, about halfway between the South Summit and the summit of Everest, was a steep spur of rock and ice now called the Hillary Step.

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According to ABI, the iPad's relatively high price, averaging more than $650 per unit sold, was too steep to spur mass adoption of the product.

On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.

Although the attackers gained their first objectives, they were held up short of the Chipilly Spur, a steep wooded ridge.

In the mid 1990's, the M.T.A. recovered from serious financial problems partly as a result of the steep rise in ridership spurred by those discounts and by service improvements.

A disappointing report on the nation's second-quarter economic activity spurred a steep initial decline in stocks in the United States on Friday, adding to the malaise in the markets as investors wait for an outcome of the debt ceiling debate in Washington.

The diversity of bacterial metabolism and the perspective of engineering applications has spurred a steep increase in both the number of sequencing projects and the volume of high throughput experiments on bacteria.

William built his castle on a rocky Magnesian Limestone spur surrounded by steep banks, and the fortification included a motte, an inner bailey protected by an earth bank and palisades, an outer bailey, and possibly a timber keep.

Sales of GameBoy Color jumped to 504,000 from 35,000, spurred largely by steep price cuts at two retail chains.

The links include a metro cable car system and escalators up steep hills, reducing commutation times, spurring private investment, and promoting social equity as well as environmental sustainability.

Secondly, the wall is surrounded by four steep defensive ditches and banks around the hill spur, and seven such ramparts across the uphill side of the spur.

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