Run-up
run-up (noun) - period of time just before an important event
the run-up to a campaign
the run-up to an election
in the run-up to
in the run-up to the privatisation
during the run up to
the run up to the war
in the run up to the beginning of formal consultations
as a run up to
Example sentences:
* In the run up to privatisation, he claimed that many would eventually lose their jobs.
* The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple… report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
* In the run up to the privatization, the deputies believed they had been singled out as a obstacle to producing cheaper coal in the mines.
* They were a contractor with the firm in the run up to privatisation.
* Water and electricity companies dominate this week as a fairly select group of companies report results in the run up to Christmas.
* The deal fell foul of the Commission during the run up to the elimination of European trade barriers.
* "Copies of the anti-smoking leaflet were distributed in the town centre in the run up to yesterday's National No Smoking Day."
* Labour supporters must be in despair at not being able to race away from the Tories in the run up to the election.
* "The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit, which begins on Friday."
* Britain's electronics industry was radically restructured in the run up to the completion of the Single European Market.
* In the run up to the general elections, he has become a little less controversial in the policies he's advocating.
* In the run up to the summit the momentum of the ant-globalisation protests grew to a thunder pitch.
* In the run up to Christmas there was so much to do with all the presents to buy, wrapping them alls, getting a tree and decorating it....
* Speculation about party leadership persisted in the run up to the elections.
* During the run up to privatisation, it was established that the running costs of the nuclear power stations were higher than was previously believed.
* As a run up to this, the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations, mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support.
* In the run up to the IPO we'll continue to promote the product itself, not the technology itself which has been around for years.
* That there was quite a depression in the art market was quite evident in the run up to the fair in Paris.
* "During the run up to the 1911 strike Wilson had been advised by his doctors to take three months rest but had been determined to 'remain on the bridge and direct the fight'."
* In the run up to the Great Exhibition of 1851 he produced images with a watermarked portrait of Queen Victoria.
* In the the run up to the implementation of an electronic trading floor at the stock market many changes were made in the management of the exchange.
* One of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over.
* I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit.
* "A pretty girl had run up to him and thrown her arms around his neck before kissing him passionately."
* "Packed with information on how to select a route, the right clothes, and safety tips, it's hoped the handbook will be used by scores of groups and families across the province in the run up to World Walking Day."
