1.  The procession reached the foot of the long steep flight of stairs leading up to the temple.

2.  At a recent reading in New York, he was determined to appear without it but was stymied by three steep flights of stairs.

3.  Down a steep flight of stairs in the basement, a barber practiced his trade.

4.  Up a steep flight of stairs, we came to a window where a disheveled old woman beckoned us in with a gap-toothed smile.

5.  We climbed a steep flight of stairs to look at them.

6.  Down dark passageways and up a steep flight of stairs, two boys are pouring red-hot metal into molds.

7.  It is a storage cellar, down a steep flight of stone stairs from a dusty courtyard where a dozen other refugees are sheltering.