Example sentences of "held most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |
| 2 | His birthplace was the town castle , a stronghold of the Borromeo family that held most of the western shoreline , as well as the castle of Angera on the opposite shore . |
| 3 | For the moment the Republic held most of the north coast , Catalonia , Minorca , and the greater part of southern Spain . |
| 4 | Within England too there was a heavy concentration : the party held most of the seats in the Home Counties , Wessex , the West and the West Midlands ; just over half in London , the East and the North-west ; well under half in the East Midlands and North . |
| 5 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 6 | Variable and strong low-level winds held most of the individual smoke plumes below an altitude of 3–4 km within a few hundred kilometres of their oilfield sources . |
| 7 | I could see the holes and the little piles and scatters of droppings , and I could see the gorse bushes on the far slope above the bank which held most of the holes , where the rabbit-runs snaked tiny paths like jagged tunnels through the bushes , but there was no sign of the animals themselves . |