Example sentences of "[vb past] to the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth house from the left belonged to the latter . |
| 2 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 3 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 4 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 5 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |