Example sentences of "of all time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steffi Graf is the best woman player of all time . |
| 2 | What is the greatest car of all time ? |
| 3 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |
| 4 | In Jimmy Wilde , the world flyweight champion from 1916 , Britain produced one of the very greatest boxers of all time . |
| 5 | The moral opposition to boxing in the late twentieth century , which is essentially a continuation of an old Nonconformist hostility bolstered by science , is weakened by the popularity of men like Henry Cooper : 'Enry , the Londoner , the decent , gentle bruiser , who almost knocked out one of the greatest heavyweights of all time , but now prospers as a TV celebrity playing golf for charity or advertising deodorants . |
| 6 | And to move from B to Z movies , connoisseurs of the bizarre can now lay in their own copy of Edward Woods ’ Plan 9 From Outer Space ( Palace , £14.99 ) , once voted the most incompetent film of all time . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Steve Strange was forever drinking cocktails in nightclubs , while Ultravox perfected one of the least lovable recorded sounds of all time . |
| 8 | But He says the record will be ‘ less cameo-like and more cohesive ’ than Geldof 's Do They Know It 's Christmas , Time , which ousted Paul McCartney to become the best-selling British record of all time in 1984. release is scheduled for mid-January . |
| 9 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 10 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 11 | One of the biggest economic adventures of all time is , with luck , about to begin . |
| 12 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 13 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 14 | Even ‘ Batman ’ , supposedly one of the most successful films of all time , has not officially made a net profit — partly because it paid around $50m to Jack Nicholson . |
| 15 | He was the most successful Test captain of all time and one of the greatest as well . |
| 16 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 17 | That was until four overgrown , talking terrapins with a fine line in Valley Speak and a craving for pizza turned Barron into the director of the ‘ most successful independent film of all time , by at least $60m ’ . |
| 18 | The most fêted boxer of all time , Muhammad Ali , was adored because of the skill he brought to the ring . |
| 19 | Subsequent events were to make the horse a leading candidate for the greatest bloodstock bargain of all time , but when the new owner first saw his purchase he was horrified . |
| 20 | Pretty Polly was indisputably one of the outstanding racemares of all time . |
| 21 | Few imagined at this stage the scale and speed of the German victories which overwhelmed western Europe in the spring and early summer , culminating in such a comprehensive defeat of the old enemy , the French , in June , and prompting the toadying Field Marshal Keitel to declare that Hitler 's strategic brilliance in preparing the campaign made him ‘ the greatest military commander of all time ’ . |
| 22 | The ‘ most glorious and mighty victory of all time ’ had brought forth a tide of ‘ jubilation , admiration , awe , pride , competitiveness in achievement and devotion , certainty of victory and hope for peace ’ , as ‘ the entire people , together with the Führer , humbly thanked the Lord God for his blessing ’ . |
| 23 | There has been exposed for all eyes to see the lack of military ability of ‘ the most brilliant strategist of all time ’ , that is , our megalomaniac corporal . |
| 24 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ In my mind there is not an out-and-out favourite to cross Westminster Bridge because it 's the most open race of all time . |
| 26 | If found guilty , he will be Russia 's most prolific serial killer and qualify as one of the most depraved mass murderers of all time . |
| 27 | However , even though Richard Baxter may have been poor as a theologian and controversialist , he was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding pastors of all time . |
| 28 | Charles Darwin , perhaps the greatest field naturalist of all time , was impressed by this when he first encountered the tropics during his journey in HMS Beagle in the 1830s . |
| 29 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 30 | The most successful show dog of all time in the whole of |