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Example sentences for: run-up

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Greenspan's comments to the House Banking subcommittee were a green light for Wall St., which responded with a two percent run-up to a new high of 8,061.
Le Monde of Paris devoted its front-page lead and its editorial Friday to the continuing tensions between the United States and Europe in the run-up to the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle at the end of November.
The Post mentions a letter of Lincolnesque proportions displayed at the library that Bush wrote to his children during the run-up to Desert Storm.
The WP account states that in the run-up to last week's announcement of the talks, the U.S. engaged in much secret diplomacy, including a dozen phone calls between President Clinton and Syria's Hafez Assad.
Assuming that Yahoo, even with its recent run-up, will do better over the next five years than Laidlaw, then the S&P will do better than it would otherwise have done.