upper regions
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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A DWP official acknowledged that the reservoir’s absence likely contributed to some diminished pressure and dry hydrants in upper regions of the Palisades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
Carbon monoxide is generated in the hotter bottom regions and rises upward to reduce the iron oxides to pure iron through a series of reactions that take place in the upper regions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Last year, a scientific study noted that the prevalence of avian malaria has more than doubled since the 1990s in the upper regions of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2017
So, while they may have more songs that have reached the top one hundred in the country, plenty of other acts are besting them in the upper regions of the charts.
From Forbes ● Jan. 9, 2015
She, after some weeks of Vathek’s absence, had forsaken the upper regions of her tower, because everything appeared in confusion among the stars, which she consulted relative to the fate of her son.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
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