How To Use Steeply In A Sentence
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A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
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The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
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The path suddenly dipped very steeply down a sandy bank among tall grasses.
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The house, with its steeply pitched red-tiled roof, precipitous gables and tall tapering chimneys, is L-shaped with a well-head in the angle, its conical top resembling a Welsh wizard's hat.
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Above the treeline take a grassy path leading steeply towards the summit.
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The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed of 2,500 mph.
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Christopher Barreca's set is a round arena behind which stretches a steeply raked platform, half of which sometimes turns into a set of stairs.
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Their steeply raked windshields and low seats gave them a track-ready look but made them awkward to use (though they are comfortable enough once you're inside).
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A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry squawk.
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Swiss chalets have steeply slanting roofs, so that snow does not settle on them.
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Down went the sun and down, not diving steeply, but passing northward as it sank, and then suddenly daylight and the expansive warmth of daylight had gone altogether, and the index of the statoscope quivered over to
The War in the Air
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Without action, the death toll is predicted to climb steeply.
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We climbed steeply over dark rocks to two high passes and, as is the custom, placed white stones on their cairns to ask for good luck and strength.
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The first divers down found the ship lying unevenly and had great difficulty in moving across the steeply sloping decks.
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Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices.
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In the Kurdish Country of the northeast, the land rises steeply into the Zagros Mountains.
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Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness.
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The plane banked steeply to the left.
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The stands at the sports ground rake steeply.
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Go through and out the other end to where the bottom shelves up steeply into the kelp zone.
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The plane dipped steeply like a horse refusing a fence.
Bomber
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I can attest that the number of patients taking metoprolol compared to other beta-blockers rose steeply in my community after the publication of that paper.
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Above the treeline take a grassy path leading steeply towards the summit.
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Between the outcrop and me was a thick snow bank, and this was very steeply inclined.
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The lead bomber selected as the target of the attack dived steeply away and disappeared.
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There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Thus the spiral of the arms race - nuclear, conventional, laser and other - will again soar steeply undermining strategic stability.
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Nobel Lecture
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The Old Man of Stoer comes into view shortly after this, and you follow the cliff edge round to the right and then down steeply to look over the sea stack.
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There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Above the treeline take a grassy path leading steeply towards the summit.
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Ventral valve with broad shallow sulcus bearing anteriorly a low and rounded median swelling; lateral slopes narrow, steeply inclined.
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The entrance drops steeply down over boulders to the head of the first pitch (rigging guide) where there is a stemple which did not, however, give the pot its name.
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The profile of the temporary bund would slope steeply away from viewpoints on Whalley Lane and be beyond the present high bund at the back of the farmhouse.
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The anterior slope is long and straight to weakly convex, while the posterior slope is concave and more steeply inclined than that of N. hazeni.
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The plane lifted off and climbed steeply into the sky.
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To my left, rough sloping ground dropped away steeply to reveal a clearing several hundred yards below.
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Beyond the woods the path zig-zags steeply uphill and enters a pass between the east slopes of Arkle and the south west slopes of Meall Horn.
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There is no timber in this valley, and accordingly the scenery, though on a large scale, is neither impressive nor pleasing; the mountains are large swelling hummocks, grassed up to the summit, and though steeply declivitous, entirely destitute of precipice.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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The steeply raked stage had not been properly prepared by the stage staff and many of the singers had an uncomfortable night slipping around the stage.
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A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
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In every case, it said finite reserves of these minerals were approaching exhaustion and prices would rise steeply.
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The ground inclined steeply towards the ridge in the distance.
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Above us a wall of broken black rock rears steeply.
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Keep to the lane as it bends left then right and it drops more steeply downhill.
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The species is represented in our collections by small anthaspidellid sponges that range from stalked individuals that expand upward as broadly to steeply obconical forms, to more rare simple branched forms.
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So a racetrack like Milwaukee, being another track that's fairly short and not really steeply banked, it ought to be a pretty difficult place to race?
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The militance about taxes began to escalate steeply after George H.W. Bush vowed at the 1988 convention, "Read my lips: no new taxes.
In which we stop the presses for two honest Republicans
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His sweatshirt hood, steeply pitched overhead: a lone monk kneeling at prayer at a partially disinterred altar.
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Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices.
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The Coast Mountains rise steeply from the fjords and channels on the coast, and glaciers are found at higher elevations.
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The jet was descending steeply, but its pilot was able to pull it out just in time.
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During this time, many of the district's steeply dipping, northeast-trending faults were intruded by narrow, granodiorite porphyry dikes.
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The lead bomber selected as the target of the attack dived steeply away and disappeared.
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The path began to climb quite steeply.
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The land dropped steeply away into a small valley.
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The road rose steeply past forests of cardónes and dry washes over stretches of washboard and sections paved with flat rocks.
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The S80 has soft lines with a gently sloping hood, steeply raked windscreen, slightly bowed roofline and coupe-like rear window.
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The plane dipped steeply like a horse refusing a fence.
Bomber
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Survival decreases more steeply for rearmost positions due to stochastic factors differentially affecting mortality of subordinate sibs.
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Finally, narrow-bodied and wide-bodied planes would land on separate runways, with the narrow bodies descending more steeply.
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Dried salmon and other fish also adorned others, pleasingly hinting of the general honesty and mutual confidence of the humble natives, poor as they were, for strangers were never thought of; the road, such as it was, merely mounting up to "the hill" (the lofty desert of sheepwalk) on one hand, and descending steeply to the river Tivy on the other.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio.
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%
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From here the path climbs steeply to the summit.
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To the east the land fell away steeply across rocky ground to the Grendel Valley River some called the Styx four thousand feet down and five miles away.
Beowulf's Children
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It is nearly all rugged and heathery, with ranges of hills rising steeply from the lakes, especially from the shores of Lough Mask on one side, and from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean on the other, forming many lofty peaks with long-drawn valleys where the streams rushing down widen into deep and fishful lakes, which, especially in Connemara, attract fishermen from all parts of the United Kingdom.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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The fields drop steeply to the sea, and some are terraced.
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the street rose steeply up to the castle
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The seats are steeply raked and we look down at the operating table, a slab of wood like a butcher's block.
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Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
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On the other side of the river the mountains rose steeply again, and the road vanished into the wood immediately on the other side.
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During the brief 1991-98 period of peace, Eritreans organized themselves to terrace the steeply eroded mountainsides with endless ribbons of rock.
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The sun reached its zenith and fell steeply on the western side, and they did not notice.
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A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink.
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A downside to the steeply raked windscreen is that taller drivers may find they are sitting just a little too high for comfort.
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Uluru is composed of steeply dipping, feldspar-rich sandstone arkose and has been exposed as a result of folding, faulting, the erosion of surrounding rock and infill.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
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There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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But before you rush to the shops, be aware that this work contains steeply off-putting section titles and chapter headings, many favouring the riff-plus-triplet form academic publishing gets such a kick out of.
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It highlights that prices come down as well as go up and that payments rise steeply as a result of wider economic pressures.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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Afraid the soldiers had seen the package, Ian ducked down instinctively, but the aircraft banked steeply and slid down into the valley.
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The ground inclined steeply towards the ridge in the distance.
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Our approach hike took 40 minutes through steeply pitched fields full of sassifrage, campanula, and grazing sheep.
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Male kestrels display to attract females by climbing high, calling, then diving fast and steeply before climbing again repeatedly.
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On a steeply wooded bank on the brink of a stream valley I walked into the cherry grove.
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The break was a long gulley, and the road climbed precariously and steeply along its edge.
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The prologue opened with a stark black, steeply raked stage with just a chair for Swallow.
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Be careful round the corner,the road inclines steeply to the left.
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Its features include floors raised off the ground and steeply pitched roofs with deep overhanging eaves.
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The plane dipped steeply like a horse refusing a fence.
Bomber
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The following morning we climbed on, ascending steeply to reach the toe of the glacier that lead up to Syram and its unnamed pyramidal neighbour.
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A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink.
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Another path, this time with a bench at the end, leads off to the right just before the track starts to drop steeply.
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The disappearance of nearly a mile of steeply shelving shingle has baffled experts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Profuse with cobbled streets, the steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables with the structures lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering, this part of town gave her an archaic feeling.
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In front the land dropped steeply away to the desert.
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Hay cocks tended to split horizontally when they were being windlassed on to the steeply inclined ruck-shifter.
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The path started to ascend more steeply at this point.
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The fact that the site is located in such a steeply sided incised valley and the presence of certain indicator species such as moschatel suggest that it could be ancient semi-natural woodland.
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At the far end of the parking area, turn left through a kissing gate and follow the path which drops steeply downhill and leads to a bridge over the River Croal.
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Penne-d'Agenais is another must-see medieval village, tumbling steeply down its hillside in a vertical chaos of titchy old streets.
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In Japan, where top riders earn fortunes, the tracks are less steeply banked and they race on all-weather asphalt, rather than wooden surfaces.
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As recently as the 1990s, Barnes & Noble was known as a carnivorous competitor with the power to wipe out independent bookstores with its steeply discounted books and sprawling stores where customers could sip coffee and read in plush chairs.
Barnes & Noble Seeks Next Chapter
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Be careful round the corner,the road inclines steeply to the left.
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It is also easy on the eye with its long bonnet, steeply raked windscreen, wide doors and short boot, with an extra 30 mm on the wheelbase helping to provide it with its distinctive arrow-like tapering front.
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He drove down the long, steeply angled driveway.
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According to Wratten's article, the Chinook was ‘some 15 seconds from the fogbound lighthouse and perilously close to steeply rising ground that was also shrouded in cloud’.
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We felt the plane bank steeply as it changed direction.
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The rugged, steeply sloping mountains are composed of Precambrian amphibolite and gneiss.
Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
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The sides sloped steeply upwards and flared outwards before curving back inwards to thin necks and gentle mouths.
Luz - Another Village Light
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But what is also clear from this action is how Bosnia and Herzegovina from a powerful state that once was a part of sovereign Yugoslavia, has slid down so steeply to become a fragile, vulnerable state at the mercy of the world's superpower.
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But the price of leather had shot up steeply, and tanners refused to sell at government rates.
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This crest ascended more gently than the sides of the ridge, leading us to broader, more open country that rises steadily but not steeply toward the peak.
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The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
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The path started to ascend more steeply.
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At the front, large tapering light covers flank a steeply rising, scalloped bonnet that features a central crease line.
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Thanks to its flat roof and more upright glass all round, the interior is less exposed to the sun, so the presence or absence of air conditioning is not as critical as in most modern cars with their steeply raked windscreens.
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A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink.
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The granitoids and the steeply bedded sedimentary rocks that they intruded are cut by steep or vertical regional cleavage.
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It is part of an archipelago of peaks and plateaux, an isolated refugium covered by Guinean montane forest, which rises steeply above undulating lowland forest plains.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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Runway 14 began atop a steeply sloping terrace with an abrupt drop-off at the approach end, departure end and left side of the threshold.
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The path descends steeply to the village.
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Follow the forestry track until you emerge from the woods, cross the bridge over a burn, then bear right up the rough, stony and often wet track which rises steeply to the Bealach na Sroine.
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The plane lifted off and climbed steeply into the sky.
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The simple reason behind this change is that the US dollar and the euro are going to steeply depreciate against the value of gold.
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The path descended steeply into the valley.
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The seats are steeply raked but there is plenty of room between aisles.
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The desert ends with a steeply shelving cliff against the ocean, where layers of alluvial accretion are exposed like a lesson in geological stratification.
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A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
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The path began to climb quite steeply.
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Another half-mile along the top wall and we reach a ladder stile and the descent, which is all in a sunken path and takes you past the crag-line and steeply down into some interesting rough and grooved terrain.
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The combe sides rose steeply, flushed purple by thousands of foxgloves.
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As with many 1960s British theatres the seats are all on one steeply raked tier; unusually they are undivided by aisles, keeping the audience as a single unit.
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The ground rose steeply all around.
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Steeply banked, it rises up about five or six floors, with the stage and bottom floor sunk under the ground.
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I think King wins the argument so far, there is indeed spare capacity and a weaker pound helps some sectors over others ; at the same time, however, Sentance is right - the trend in commodity prices will remain steeply upward in the near to medium term hence the need to contain their impact, but why do that solely via the exchange rate?
War of words breaks out over interest rates at the MPC
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Be careful round the corner,the road inclines steeply to the left.
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The inflation rate which peaked at 8.8 per cent in late September dropped steeply from December to below 5 per cent in January.
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From the village of Jevington climb steeply over the downs then descend to Alfriston, from where you climb again before turning south at Bostal Hill down to the Cuckmere Estuary.
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This may already be seen with the steeply rising numbers of urban foxes, many of which now suffer from endemic mange.
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She records battling ‘through bauera and cutting grass, and down very steeply through more bad regrowth, fallen logs and boulders - a thoroughly horrible section’.
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Above the treeline take a grassy path leading steeply towards the summit.
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Some of the greens were so steeply sloped that the ball didn't stop, and you had to get your driver out to putt it back uphill.
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At least three people have slipped or fallen on a steeply sloping pavement in Tewkesbury High Street.
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A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
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The Deadwood house has a typical asymmetrical composition with a steeply pitched hipped roof and a front-facing gable.
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The other big one is that international commodity prices have risen steeply.
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In addition to cash, the specialists also received board and lodging, including heating and light, which ensured a perceptible increase in wages after 1770 when prices began to rise steeply.
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White sands shelve steeply down into clear blue-green water.
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The ground inclined steeply towards the ridge in the distance.
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We race just feet above the flat wet sand before he pulls on the controls and we climb steeply and bank seawards to come round for our landing.
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Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices.
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Less than 5m out from the shore, a mud bank shelves off steeply into the depths, passing through a thick halocline layer in the shallows.
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Shortly after the bridge, the road began to descend steeply while the lake continued on to the south, specked with houseboats and lake homes.
Miles to Go
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The plane climbed steeply.
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Look for a waymarker that takes you sharp left off the forest road onto a narrower path, fairly steeply uphill to a summit.
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He said the plane banked steeply on its approach.
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There is only one road, dropping steeply down a densely wooded valley towards a tiny cove.
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Yes, they are very cute and they go with everything, but the soles are a little slippery and the way back is all downhill, steeply downhill.
Appy Trails To You « Fairegarden
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Despite the steeply increased odds for cardiovascular problems associated with AF, researchers found that aggressive intervention with blood pressure and cholesterol controlling drugs (perindopril and indapamide) reduced the odds somewhat.
Top Headlines - Diabetes Health
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From where I stood, the beach shelved steeply into a channel, perhaps chest deep and a long fly cast in width to the edge of the coral, where it rose to no more than my thigh.
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Early in the nineteenth century, the number of tailors, furriers, jewellers and haberdashers rose steeply.
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The ancient huon-clad hillsides rise up steeply on either side as we drop down into the gorge, the river winding below us.
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Although the Maginot Line stopped short of the Ardennes, much of this area consisted of steep hills covered by thick forest, and its western extremity was protected by the deep and wide River Meuse with its steeply escarped banks.
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Higher up the path crosses the burn and heads steeply up to the summit of An Cabar.
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Most genera included in the family are steeply obconical to cylindrical, but a few are ovoid, at least as flattened.
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A quarter of a mile further on, at the eastern limb of the bay, the path descended steeply, zig-zagging across the cliff face to a stretch of beach to the east of Holland Point.
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The path began to climb quite steeply.
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Descend steeply from Hor Point to a stile, then ascend to a squeeze gap.
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That gap needs a strong dose of incredible shrinking pixy dust in the form of steeply progressive taxes, expanded unionization and a dramatic increase in the minimum wage, which is precisely what happened during our boom years after World War II.
Les Leopold: Obama and the Incredible Shrinking Financial Sector
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Toward central Australia, the land rises more steeply into a higher plateau and rocky ranges, where a number of peaks exceed 1500 m elevation.
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Above it tower huge cliffs and in front the hills fall steeply away to the valley floor, and you feel the weight of the centuries pressing upon you and the grandeur of Nature outlasting man and his works.
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If a pretty, snowy mountain slope is tilted steeply and bereft of trees, it's an avalanche zone.
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The transition from native forest is sudden, yet the larch plantation has its own beauty, as the track drops steeply to the Pudding Hill stream.
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On a steeply wooded bank on the brink of a stream valley I walked into the cherry grove.
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Steeply, noses high, the whole flight rapidly decelerated for the landing.
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A glass bridge leads to a suspended balcony that hovers within the double-height lobby of Sello Hall, providing access to its 402 steeply raked seats.
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The disappearance of nearly a mile of steeply shelving shingle has baffled experts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parc du Chateau lies beyond the old town and rises so steeply uphill that there is a lift which will take you to the top.
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There is only one road, dropping steeply down a densely wooded valley towards a tiny cove.
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Exterior features of the house are a steeply pitched roof, large gables and architectural details such as the ornamental dripstones above the windows.
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Especially in longitudinal sections it is clearly seen how the usually uniform row of horseshoes loosens up and is broadened by numerous steeply arranged normal dissepiments.
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Set in open moorland, 1500 feet above sea level, with hills rising steeply behind, it was indeed remote.
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The Frenchwoman bowed steeply, holding Neil's hand as if touching an icon.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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The first stop by an open gate looks promising - a belt of trees dips down one steeply-shelving hillside to Whitekeld Dale, but it is draped in thick snow.
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It highlights that prices come down as well as go up and that payments rise steeply as a result of wider economic pressures.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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If you swing down steeply and then follow through flat, you're likely to slice or pull the ball.
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Her design provides a steeply raked underlit playing area upon which the actors perch precariously.
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The first divers down found the ship lying unevenly and had great difficulty in moving across the steeply sloping decks.
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The steeply rising, boulder-strewn slope is covered with different species of trees than those you have been seeing, and in March the white flowers of the wait-a-bit thorn decorate the slopes.
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The land dropped steeply away into a small valley.
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It angled steeply downward, for the schooner's deck was much lower than the edge of the wharf, but heavy cross battens promised plenty of traction for those who had to use it.
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Descend steeply from Hor Point to a stile, then ascend to a squeeze gap.
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The jet was descending steeply, but its pilot was able to pull it out just in time.
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Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness.
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He leads me through a barn door, rather incongruous in the cub scout hallway, into the theatre itself - 43 steeply raked seats and a bare floor space, not more than a few metres either way.
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After crossing the gritty plain where the outriding developments of greater Los Angeles creep inexorably outward, the road climbed steeply, all curves and switchbacks.
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A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its features include floors raised off the ground and steeply pitched roofs with deep overhanging eaves.
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Heading back amidships along the port side, the hull dips away much more steeply than on the starboard side.
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It is part of an archipelago of peaks and plateaux, an isolated refugium covered by Guinean montane forest, which rises steeply above undulating lowland forest plains.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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All of these were vertical shaft caves or caves with steeply sloped entrances located in the limestone-dolostone karst of the Valley and Ridge physiographic province.
