Sentence examples for steep up from inspiring English sources

The foresets indicate a combination of giant dunes characterized by numerous steep (up to 20°) clinoforms corresponding to a high-energy depositional environment.

In Kent, there were 2,973 fines in the year to July, but the rise was less steep, up from 2,868 in 2012-13.

The proximal cross-stratified deposits outcrop as a wide sheet on the overbanks of smoothly incised valleys on the steep (up to 25°) upper slope of the volcano.

The cost upon admission was steep: up to $350 (roughly $5,610 today) for a four- to five-day stay.

The cost of a letter of credit can be steep: up to 5% of the amount of a sale, compared with as little as 0.1% in Europe.

The gradient of curves is steep up to the removal of about 80 ORFs in wildtype and 50 ORFs in both single KOs after which the slope gentles.

His first letters back to England were lucid: the "moonlight on the lake is noble" and the steep up-and-down streets are "like the streets in dreams".

Alabama's attorney general, Luther J. Strange, recorded a public-service announcement warning people not to be conned into paying steep "up-front" fees for construction work or to be lured by "today-only" prices.

Because of the steep up-front investments that they have so far required and the high cost per unit of power generated, renewable energy technologies have not been a popular option for producing potable water, in the Gulf or anywhere else.

In the developed world, steep up-front costs and concerns about the possible complexity of installation are two big factors discouraging consumers from investing in green energy: microhydro systems can cost $10,000 or more and solar power systems upwards of $20,000.

The high-rises of Chongqing, in western China, are built on hills; it is a city of steep ups and downs.