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Edmund crept up to the arch and looked inside into the courtyard, and there he saw a sight that nearly made his heart stop beating.

The QQQ has crept up alongside the upper trendline of the rising channel and on Friday it had a little hick up.

The thief crept up behind the old man and laid him out with a single blow on the head.

He took off his shoes and crept up the stairs without any steps being heard.

Then, as the evening crept up, I'd start with a Valium or two, or three, or four.

Our friendship had crept up on me gradually, until Don had a place in my heart equal to other people I loved.

The Buddhist, as an idea, more like crept up and settled in him shortly after his wife said she wanted a divorce.

Ten days earlier the Taliban crept up to the wall of his family compound and blew up one of the security towers, the report said.

Recently, the assets held by the Fed have crept up to $2. 2 trillion, the highest since the depths of the financial crisis a year ago.

It came into her room, and crept up to her bed.

The sales of this product has crept up in the last few months.

A snake crept up to the child of a farmer and killed it (1).

Maybe it was because fatalism crept up and attacked in the dark.

Overall, support for Obama has crept up since he took office in January.

April fool's day crept up on us once again, and the media was full of made-up stories. Which of the following was a hoax?

But one day Banzo crept up behind him and gave him a terrific blow with a wooden sword.

The new genetic maps suggest that a common ancestor to beetles crept up well before its descendants showed up in the fossil record.

A hunter saw their tracks, crept up to the burrow and began digging so as to catch the fox and the crane.

To be sure, consumers often respond sluggishly to events, but this crisis has not suddenly crept up on people.

The latest figures show evidence of growing strain on businesses as company liquidations crept up and experts predicted a bad year ahead.

She crept up to him from behind.

The price of crude had held above $80 for much of 2010, and crept up in recent weeks.

According to the WFP, for instance, the number of malnourished people in the south has now crept up to 47% of the population.

Something climbed onto my leg and crept up to my chin.

Ivy crept up all over the wall.

It was raining hard; I had the wipers at their fastest setting. A car crept up from the right to pass.

Recently, the issue of banks' liquidity has crept up the authorities' agenda.

he yawned and slumped farther into his seat , his thinking becoming woolly as sleep crept up on him.

The policeman crept up on the criminal and seized him from behind.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in the euro zone crept up to 10%. Youth unemployment in the 16-country block was 21%.

They crept up to the attic where they slept.

The cat crept up as the mouse crept out of the cave.

The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids.

Apple's iPhone and the ubiquitous BlackBerry crept up on Samsung Electronics, exposing its shortcoming in smart-phones.

Other input costs have also crept up, including for iron ore and steel, but many companies are taking these, too, in stride.

The hunter crept up to the deer.

The police crept up from behind and took the gangster by surprise.

American employers shed 263, 000 jobs in September as the unemployment rate crept up to 9. 8%.

It has since crept up a bit, to 1. 5% in July and 1. 6% in September (the latest available) of 2011.

Doubt crept up on me about the feasibility of the plan.

I crept up the stairs in case I woke up my roommates.

You get to playing a lot of playoff games back to back, we're every other day in this situation. Kind of crept up on them, perhaps.

But the scale of the losses has crept up again in recent years (see chart).

Meanwhile, casualty figures from the subway accident have crept up, according to state media reports.

But inflation crept up to 5. 6% in November.

Ivy had crept up the castle walls.

All would be well if you lived in a novel; even when death crept up on you, the end would come in a few pages or a few lines.

' " Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe. "

This is a new idea that's crept up that may be, essentially, a cleverer idea than putting sulfates in.

She failed the written test 949 times, but her scores steadily crept up.

The condition gradually crept up on Ellie after she first had sex at 17.

I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.

The cat crept up on the bird and pounced .

Poetry crept up on Mr. Heaney in 1962, and never let go.

Disregarding this one-off effect, aid only crept up by 2% in 2007.

France's (albeit already high) unemployment rate has crept up just one percentage point to 9. 3 per cent since 2007, according to the OECD.

It's crept up on us so that we have hardly noticed.

An undertow of wariness crept up on me over the last year.

A hand crept up lazily in the back corner of the room.

The percentage of 15-29 year-olds crept up from 28% in 1990 to 29% in 2000, but has since started to drop.

Between 2005 and 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, it crept up 5%.

The insanity crept up on us slowly;