Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the price range £100-£1,000 , no less than twenty-one of the twenty-two highest prices were paid for the products of six presses — Kelmscott ( 5 ) , Doves ( 6 ) , Ashendene ( 3 ) , Golden Cockerel ( 2 ) , Shakespeare Head ( 2 ) and Gregynog ( 3 ) . |
| 2 | Six of the seven warmest years this century have occurred in the last decade . |
| 3 | A leader in The Guardian in September 1988 confirmed this gloomy picture and reported that seventy-seven of the 100 biggest firms approached had refused to help . |
| 4 | Applications continued to be reported into the 1970s , but a survey which covered 276 of the 500 largest corporations in America found in 1969 that 80% had never used or considered job enlargement ( Schoderbek and Reif , 1969 ) . |
| 5 | In 1989 in a television piece , Daley Thompson picked Ben 's run as one of the six greatest performances of all time , and I have to agree with that . |
| 6 | JCI 's gold mines produced 51.7 tons of gold in the past financial year Johnnies ' diamond interests comprise of holdings in unlisted diamond trading companies and in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd/De Beers Centenary AG Johnnies ' non-managed investments date as far back as 1895 when it became a founding shareholder of South African Breweries , one of the 10 largest breweries in the world |
| 7 | The paper , on gaseous diffusion plant decommissioning , was selected as one of the 10 best presentations at the US Department of Energy 's conference on waste management . |
| 8 | ‘ Last year I was one of the four best referees in the world . |
| 9 | While Road and Track judged the MX5 to be one of the five best cars in the world . |
| 10 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 11 | With Marler he took a cab to the Hessischer Hof , one of the two best hotels in the city . |
| 12 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 14 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 15 | Financial details were not revealed , but IBM is now said to be ‘ one of the two largest investors ’ in the privately held firm . |
| 16 | It is , in fact , one of the two largest galaxies in that group and nearby , in astronomical terms at least , there are other such groups containing thirty/forty/fifty galaxies maybe , and these galaxies themselves , these groups , are clustered into larger groups and these groups are glustered into even larger groups , so there are clusters of clusters of clusters of galaxies , right out to the furthest reaches of space . |
| 17 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
| 18 | Oil field tubulars [ which include drillpipe , tubing and casing ] represent one of the single largest investments that an oil company makes in the course of a drilling programme . |
| 19 | At the peak , the breweries were one of the single biggest spenders , upgrading bars and restaurants to new levels of speed and hygiene . |
| 20 | ‘ Within ten minutes of this 28-year-old youngster taking the platform , I knew that here was one of the dozen finest orators in the country . |
| 21 | We felt almost guilty that our unremarkable house in Edinburgh would have been one of the dozen oldest buildings in Austin . |
| 22 | Emili F. Miró , grandson of the artist , recently confirmed that one of the three finest collections of works by Miró is now the possession of the Japanese shipowner and real-estate dealer Katshuda . |
| 23 | ‘ Hilary Frome says that Burleigh is one of the twenty-five worst schools in the country . ’ |
| 24 | Listed as one of the 30 best courses in the world , day membership costs only £25 , and gives use of the superb club house , bar , swimming pool , showers and changing rooms as well as the 6,800 yd course . |
| 25 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 26 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 27 | As one of the ten largest cities in Britain , Bradford has many attractions . |
| 28 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |
| 29 | It also boasts four of the five highest peaks . |
| 30 | The aim is to address the fact that while seven of the 10 highest-grossing films of all-time are ‘ effects ’ films , effects and synthetic characters are challenging and often frustrating to produce . |