Example sentences of "[prep] the oldest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among some of the more senior citizens in Soldiers Grove , a tiny town ( population 560 ) in western Wisconsin , the new market is for the oldest profession . |
| 2 | The comprehension scale ( A ) correlates positively with the expression scale , although this is much higher for the youngest children ( 0.67 ) than for the oldest ( 0.32 ) . |
| 3 | She finally got involved for the oldest reason of all : ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into it just to get his attention , and to be around him more . ’ |
| 4 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 5 | Many of those whose professional work involves care for old people are prone to believe that there was once an extended family system in this country whereby successive generations of kin lived together , the younger ones caring lovingly for the oldest . |
| 6 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
| 7 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 8 | I still fell for it , as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts . |
| 9 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 10 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 11 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , back to Fairford for the oldest AND some of the most up-to-date flying machines on display at the weekend . |
| 12 | Doctors will often differ as to cause , particularly since ‘ died of old age ’ is not a permitted entry ; the unreliability is therefore greatest for the oldest age groups . |
| 13 | So the , for the oldest child it 's nine pounds twenty five . |
| 14 | As the oldest solder manufacturer in the United Kingdom , and almost certainly in Europe , Geo W Neale Limited has had over 100 years experience of successfully supplying a wide range of industrial users with most of their solder and bearing metal requirements . |
| 15 | The psychology of groups is first asserted to be the oldest form of human psychology , but then individual psychology , of the leader , chief or father , is also added as the oldest individual psychology . |
| 16 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 17 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 18 | There may therefore be a considerable difference in size between the oldest and the youngest . |
| 19 | With 38 deaths over 2 years of follow-up among the 119 survivors of the hospital admission , the study had 80% power to detect a relative risk of 3.0 between the oldest and youngest age groups . |
| 20 | On the subject of finding the oldest plant , what about the oldest gardener ? |
| 21 | To my surprise and consternation I found the St Viger to be about the oldest hotel in Canada , probably First Class A-l in its time , but now somewhat run down , although the rooms were large and rather ornate . |
| 22 | Beeswax : is one of the oldest types of finish , although most modern waxes now contain other waxes , such as Carnauba or micro-crystalline waxes , to improve the performance . |
| 23 | The $3.65bn buyout will increase the airline 's debt-equity ratio from less than 50 per cent to 585 per cent and NorthWest operates one of the oldest fleets in the industry , but Mr Skinner 's chief concern was the citizenship of KLM 's representative on the NorthWest board . |
| 24 | While new departments are born and others extended , one of the oldest — the Home Office — would become a shadow of its present self . |
| 25 | This is where many people choose to start the walk around one of the oldest geological areas in Britain — there is a large car park near the one mile long beach . |
| 26 | It is the site of the oldest parliament in the world . |
| 27 | Most famous is the Leeds City Varieties , one of the oldest music halls in the country and home of BBC TV 's The Good Old Days . |
| 28 | Corn-milling is one of the oldest and most necessary human occupations . |
| 29 | Pont l'Eveque is one of the oldest of all the cheeses made in Normandy and is distinguished by its square shape , being packed in small boxes similar to those for Camembert . |
| 30 | Epiphany is one of the oldest festivals in the Church , far Older than Christmas . |