Example sentences of "[prep] the fastest " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were tough qualifying conditions in the heats : the first in each heat automatically and then a number of the fastest losers . |
| 32 | The strike of Odontodactylus has the distinction of the fastest movement ever recorded in the animal kingdom , and the force of a small-calibre bullet — enough to shatter aquarium glass . |
| 33 | Thailand , with one of the fastest growth rates in the world over the past 25 years , has also seen one of the most rapid declines in fertility , leading to better health and education for the country 's children . |
| 34 | LYRIC FANTASY , one of the fastest two-year-old fillies of the modern era , was last night sold for 340,000 guineas at public auction . |
| 35 | As a reflection of its rapid growth , County listed some of the fastest growing companies of the 1980s among its clients . |
| 36 | She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh . |
| 37 | At Mach 1.2 , the Foxbat finally sloughed off the world of sound with a dull , ominous rumble , and Vologsky surged with new enthusiasm and excitement , happy to be in perfect control of one of the fastest flying machines in the world . |
| 38 | One of the fastest SX 's we 've ever looked at . |
| 39 | The Intel 386sx TM processor runs at 20Mhz making it one of the fastest SX 's on the market . |
| 40 | The second city is Santa Cruz in Bolivia , which is one of the fastest growing cities in South America . |
| 41 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 42 | The huge lock Mesake Rasari , one of the fastest men on show , set the scene when he motored home from halfway . |
| 43 | And luckily for him , research from International Data Corp and Input indicates that systems integration is one of the fastest growing information technology sectors — Input predicts that the Western European market , valued at $3,300m in 1991 , will be worth $7,900m by 1996 . |
| 44 | According to Dataquest , the BiCMOS and linear array sector is one of the fastest growing groups within the world semiconductor market — a trend Thomson 's Analog Cells and Arrays group , Anaca , intends to exploit with its new mixed arrays . |
| 45 | The Texas prison system may well have been one of the fastest expanding systems in recent history . |
| 46 | ADDS is hoping the new 3533 XLRs , a nine-model family including monochrome , grey scale and colour versions developed under the code name Viper , will offer some of the fastest machines on the block . |
| 47 | Heading the line-up in the 350cc class is Steve Carter , of Bury St Edmunds , one of the fastest and most consistent riders in the country . |
| 48 | ‘ It is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe , but if we do not act now we will see the same kind of draconian measures becoming necessary in Britain as are already being undertaken in Europe . |
| 49 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |
| 50 | Golf is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide , and for many playing a few leisurely games is the top priority during a weekend . |
| 51 | On to Phoenix , one of the fastest growing cities in the West and the fun resort of Scottsdale . |
| 52 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 53 | This century the professions have been one of the fastest growing sectors of the occupational structure . |
| 54 | at six times the speed of the fastest projectile |
| 55 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 56 | It was a speed equivalent to that of the fastest armoured land vehicle in use in the Empire . |
| 57 | Reanalysis of childhood mortality data first published in 1988 raises new concerns about the health and circumstances of one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society : lone mothers with dependent children who are largely reliant on social security benefits . |
| 58 | This is especially the case when the unoccupied group is identified as largely consisting of single parent families dependent on state benefits , one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society . |
| 59 | One of the only two batsmen to average 50 in first-class cricket before the First World War , and with a career average exceeded only by Hick and Boycott among players to have represented England , K. S. Ranjitsinhji was another of the fastest scorers , dealing in deft deflections as well as , at times , the big-hitting game . |
| 60 | Fender boasts one of the fastest centuries on record , and was also a good field . |