Example sentences of "set a world " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEAT was cut , ground to flour and baked into bread in just 21 minutes to set a world record at Heckington , Lincs , yesterday . |
| 2 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 3 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 4 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 5 | Pedrosa waves his arms about in the air furiously when asked if Mota could ever set a world record . |
| 6 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 7 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 8 | Two wingwalkers have set a world record by handing a baton between aircraft flying just twelve feet apart . |
| 9 | The Social Climbers by Chris Darwin and John Amy ( Mainstream , £12.99 ) — A black-tie dinner in a blizzard on the 22,000-foot summit of Peru 's highest and most unpronounceable mountain , where the guests almost die of hypothermia , sets a world record , raises money for charity and gets Charles Darwin 's great-great-grandson on to a Japanese television show for freaks . |
| 10 | Compton sale of Japanese swords sets a world record for total value |
| 11 | The ring main has already broken several productivity records : Fairclough dug about 38 metres of tunnel in one 12-hour shift , setting a world record for wedgeblock tunnelling ( whereby the ground is supported with a ring of pre-cast concrete segments expanded by a concrete block ) . |
| 12 | Completed on May 1 , 1927 it first flew on May 12 and proved to be an excellent design , setting a world class record for long-distance flight when it flew the 1,240km from Kharkov/Sevastopol to Moscow in fifteen hours thirty minutes . |
| 13 | Eight years after setting a world mile record which still remains unchallenged today , the 32-year-old has abandoned his glittering international miling career to make his eagerly-awaited move up the distance ladder . |
| 14 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 15 | 1964 was the year of the Tokyo Olympics , where Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon in 2hrs 12mins 11.2secs and Ken Matthews of Great Britain won the 20km walk in 1hr 29mins 34.0secs . |
| 16 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 17 | Tony Simmons set a world age 16 best at Brache in 1965 , with 30:16 for six miles . |
| 18 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 19 | After those championships she has her sights set on a more demanding six-day track event in Australia ; she set a world best for 538 miles at the equivalent event in 1990 . |
| 20 | The same auctioneer set a world record on 22 June for a Louis XV commode by Jacques Dubois which he sold for FFr1.4 million ( £148,936 ; $282,978 ) . |
| 21 | Sandra Voelker , from Germany , set a world best of 28.33sec in the 50m backstroke . |
| 22 | The 22-year-old Londoner , who set a world best in the 50m butterfly in Germany last weekend , held off Russia 's Olympic champion , Alex Popov , by exactly half a second with 21.6sec . |
| 23 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |