Example sentences of "set [art] world record " 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 | Pedrosa waves his arms about in the air furiously when asked if Mota could ever set a world record . |
| 3 | Two wingwalkers have set a world record by handing a baton between aircraft flying just twelve feet apart . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Compton sale of Japanese swords sets a world record for total value |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm glad it 's over , ’ said Reynolds , who set the world record of 43.29sec at Zurich in 1988 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |