Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 2 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 3 | They have remained close to the latter level ever since . |
| 4 | Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event . |
| 5 | Gary Cattermole remained unbeaten in the latter match , although it was close — defeating Jim Laxton 21–16 in the third , Ron Covall 21–17 in the third and Joe Murray 21–19 in the third . |