Example sentences of "[adj -est] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , MPs had their longest ever summer break this year . |
| 2 | The most fancied contender seems to be the teenage Hungarian girl Judit Polgar the youngest ever qualifier as a grandmaster , one month younger than Fischer . |
| 3 | The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition . |
| 4 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 5 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 6 | At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital . |
| 7 | At 18 , he is the society 's youngest ever producer , and brings to the production the expertise gained as a Hampshire Drama Foundation Course student at Queen Mary 's College , Basingstoke . |
| 8 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 9 | She was snapped up as one of the youngest ever Page Three girls but made her last topless appearance on her 21st birthday . |
| 10 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years . |
| 11 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 12 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 13 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 14 | The 15-year-old Boat Club player has been selected to represent Ireland in the prestigious Federation Cup tournament , the youngest ever player to attain such recognition . |
| 15 | Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo . |
| 16 | Last week the Cherry and Whites suffered their heaviest ever league defeat . |
| 17 | This Cartier sautoir , valued at £150,000 , along with other jewellery and precious gems — including the legendary ‘ Agra Diamond ’ once owned by Babur ( 1483–1530 ) India 's first Mogul Emperor — is now offered at auction in London 's finest ever sale of this kind . |
| 18 | Labour 's greatest ever achievement , without fear of any contradiction , the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was the introduction of the N H S which still remains to a large extent , the envy of the world . |
| 19 | Hockey 's greatest ever striker admitted : ‘ I 'm quitting now . ’ |
| 20 | Britain 's greatest ever runner will make his debut marathon appearance at the 1991 IAAF ADT London Marathon . |
| 21 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 22 | The greatest ever North-East band ? |
| 23 | The Lancashire lad has managed to live with the pressures of early success and on Tuesday will make his bid for the game 's top prize against it 's greatest ever player . |
| 24 | A full analysis of the situation will be postponed to the end of this chapter , but it seems worth noting that recently the Tyne shipped its largest ever cargo — an export load of scrap . |
| 25 | As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications . |
| 26 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 27 | The largest ever study of possible causal links between pesticides and cancer is being launched by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences . |
| 28 | In October last year the National Trust launched one of its largest ever countryside appeals . |
| 29 | The legacy of Britain 's largest ever baby boom , dating from the early years of this century , manifested itself in the growth of the numbers of people of pensionable age in the 1960s and 1970s and the dramatic increase in the numbers of the very elderly in the 1980s . |
| 30 | With major backing from W.L. Gore & Associates , and minor sponsorship from other outdoor firms , the world 's largest ever rock climbing competition was even a moderate financial success . |