1. Through the summer runup in technology stock prices, executives at the on-line service provider sat tight.

2. 10 It was said that they wanted to avoid taking attention away from the Queen and Prince of Wales in the runup to the Queen's diamond jubilee next summer.

3. It was said that they wanted to avoid taking attention away from the Queen and Prince of Wales in the runup to the Queen's diamond jubilee next summer.

4. The country's consumer power has been particularly evident in the runup to the start of the lunar new year – a peak of shopping similar to the pre-Christmas splurge in the UK and US.