Example sentences of "saw the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsie Streek 's holiday classes in Sidcup saw the largest attendance ever , and were successful and rewarding . |
| 2 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 3 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world — but no one was caring for them . |
| 5 | As a result , bonfire night 1991 saw the lowest accident figures for 20 years . |
| 6 | But we saw the best bit Paulie . |
| 7 | The constituency saw the highest fall in turnout in the province from 72% in 1973 to 61% in 1975 . |
| 8 | But , despite many improvements in hygiene since the beginning of the century , 1988 saw the highest incidence of illness caused by contaminated food ever recorded . |
| 9 | THE WOOD Group Young Artists Competition is now in its seventh year and , with 73 entries received , saw the highest standard of work ever submitted . |
| 10 | Of the company 's remaining operations : clinical laboratories saw the greatest profit and sales rises , at 26 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 11 | The principate of Severus probably saw the greatest expansion , and it is perhaps no coincidence that it may have been he who introduced the annona militaris , a tax paid in grain or other materials to meet the needs of the army . |
| 12 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 13 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 14 | Which years saw the greatest growth in headhunting ? |
| 15 | Friday saw the latest addition to Darlington 's throbbing night life packed to the rafters . |
| 16 | When you first went to Vienna to conduct at the State Opera in , I think , 1937 , you saw the worst side of opera-house routine ? |
| 17 | May Day saw the worst violence in the streets of Moscow since the attempted coup of August 1991 , as neo-communist demonstrators clashed with riot police . |
| 18 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 19 | Clare looked up and saw the tallest man she had ever seen ; he had curly black hair and black-lashed , dark brown eyes , now filled with worry . |