Example sentences of "i [verb] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 2 | Of course , I made the latter up though I am still very proud of them ; a mailed fist , middle finger extended , and underneath the Latin motto ‘ In dubito curre ’ which , roughly translated , means ‘ In doubt , run ’ . |
| 3 | I disputed the latter with Tony who conceded that the differential existed more because it was ‘ expected ’ by customers than in any attempt to persuade them to buy the beer in preference to another . |
| 4 | I fear the latter , but first a little more on the term itself . |
| 5 | I suspect the latter in your case for two reasons : |
| 6 | I believe the latter . |
| 7 | Faced with the prospect of watching a fat geordie sweating himself to death on a sofa or driving down the A1 to Elland Road I chose the latter and watched the Swindon game . |
| 8 | Sometimes I think the latter , sometimes the former . |
| 9 | I think the latter . |
| 10 | Had I taken the latter course , the result might have been embarrassment rather than accident . |
| 11 | Of the two , I prefer the latter . ’ |
| 12 | I recommend the latter . |
| 13 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 14 | On the whole I suspected the latter . |
| 15 | I suspected the latter . |
| 16 | I see the latter as symbolic of a process which has been described variously as ‘ attribution ’ or ‘ definition ’ . |