Example sentences of "[art] fewest " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no candidate wins more than half the first preference votes , the candidate with the fewest first preference votes is excluded , and his or her votes are transferred to the remaining candidates , according to the voters ' second preferences . |
| 2 | The best cork is the smoothest and densest , with the fewest veins . |
| 3 | Assume the fewest possible , namely three . |
| 4 | Also at this stage , candidates with the fewest first preference votes are eliminated and their ballot papers shared out to those candidates who appear as second preferences on those papers . |
| 5 | Sharing house space has the fewest implications . |
| 6 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 7 | Before the NHS was established , critics had noted that the ‘ inverse care law ’ seemed to apply : those regions in which the need for health care was the greatest had the fewest resources . |
| 8 | This is a very important factor because it biases police activity against the poorly spoken , badly dressed and ill-educated individuals who have the least power , and the fewest people of influence to back them up . |
| 9 | The ‘ quickest way ’ is the way which takes the fewest keystrokes . |
| 10 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 11 | The Captain intended to make his attack at one-thirty when the fewest possible people would be out in the open . |
| 12 | He had a win/loss record of 76/17 and the fewest number of 1st round loses of any other player in 1991 , ( one , in 20 tournaments entered ) . |
| 13 | The desegregation of education helped bring sports such as American football inside their reach during the 1960s and , by 1972 , black players comprised 40 per cent of the total of professional footballers , most , however , occupying ‘ positions with the fewest intellectual and leadership demands ’ ( Eitzen and Sanford , 1975 , p.959 ) . |
| 14 | The last group were reported by teachers and mothers to have the fewest emotional problems and highest self-esteem of the three groups . |
| 15 | To be an effective business correspondent one should have a sound knowledge of English , which includes correct spelling , grammar and punctuation , and also be able to construct sentences so that the exact meaning is conveyed in the fewest possible words . |
| 16 | The system admits of variations , but usually requires the exclusion of the candidate having the fewest votes in each successive count . |
| 17 | Like the exhaustive ballot the STV requires the successive exclusion of the candidates having the fewest votes . |
| 18 | Those who secure the fewest votes in each successive count are eliminated , and votes originally given to them are transferred as in a full-scale STV election . |
| 19 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 20 | There was too much poverty , and hardship fell on those with the fewest reserves and resources . |
| 21 | Because it 's got the , it 's the one with the fewest er detergents , |
| 22 | The fewest words were recalled with the random word order and the greatest number with correct word order . |
| 23 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 24 | Caribbean women have the fewest children , and in Cuba the average is 1.7 . |
| 25 | Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ? |
| 26 | This year there were 363 starts , the fewest since the second world war . |
| 27 | Why does Britain have the worst maternity rights , the fewest equal opportunities and the least protection against poverty pay ? |
| 28 | If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ? |
| 29 | The highest prevalences have been recorded in dogs of less than six months of age , with the fewest worms in adult animals . |
| 30 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |