Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most early plantation development was at the higher elevations , especially in the central highlands , which covered parts of Kandy , Nuvara Eliya and Badulla districts . |
| 2 | Hawkshead Grammar School was at the highest point of its reputation when Wordsworth arrived ; boys were sent to it from all over the north-west of England and even from Scotland . |
| 3 | Among men for whom the ratio of placental weight to birth weight was in the highest fifths the standardised mortality ratio was 137 . |
| 4 | Many of these factories work at night ; when manufacturing output was at the high levels of the late 1970s , many thousands of people went to sleep ( or tried to ) with the sound of local industries buzzing in their ears . |
| 5 | In the 1960s Victoria 's road death rate was 30–40% above Smeed 's prediction and rates per unit population were among the highest in the world . |