Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] large [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 .
2 The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each .
3 Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% .
4 Well north of Leh — the mystical capital of Ladakh — lies the second largest glacier in Asia .
5 The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council .
6 Say the next largest ratio is R' .
7 Egypt has the second largest population in Africa ( after Nigeria ) and in 1983 was the fourth largest oil producer .
8 Mexico has the seventh largest oil and gas reserves in the world but the country 's comparatively recent admission to the hydrocarbon élite has proved a mixed blessing in the face of the fall in crude prices and a massive debt burden caused by extravagant , ill-managed and grandiose schemes to kick a Third World country into the twentieth century .
9 Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves .
10 Malaysia has the fourteenth largest gas reserves in the world at some 926 MTOE .
11 In terms of recoverable energy reserves India has the tenth largest coal reserves in the world while Pakistan has gas reserves almost as large as the UK , yet economic growth in both countries is hampered by recurrent energy shortages — particularly electricity — while the cost of importing oil is a severe drain on weak exchequers .
12 This is currently being undertaken in Britain , which has the fourth largest telephone system in the world .
13 If Sinn Fein do not hold the vacant seat , the DUP will become the second largest party in the Guildhall with five representatives .
14 In January , after a three-year C$58 million expansion and renovation , the Art Gallery of Ontario ( AGO ) will become the seventh largest art museum in North America .
15 Televisa administrators project that this year the organisation will become the fourth largest presence in Europe .
16 Should the shareholders of Tyne Tees accept their directors ' recommendation the combined group will become the third largest television company in the UK .
17 After a visit to see Mussolini 's International Fascist exhibition in the spring , Mosley organized the first large BUF march in June 1933 when 1,000 Blackshirts marched through London .
18 Poly-unsaturated fats should constitute the next largest share of your fat intake , after mono-unsaturated fats .
19 In the St Ann 's study , the sick and disabled constituted the fourth largest category of the poor .
20 Cleveland 's Districts suffered even more from the vagaries of the system , experiencing the second largest increase ( 8.9 per cent ) , followed by the largest decrease ( -13.2 per cent ) and then the largest increase ( 20.8 per cent ) .
21 In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas .
22 It is the national insurance contributions that have become the second largest element , with 17 per cent of the total .
23 The housing problem had improved little since the 1890s , although a few local authorities , notably the LCC , had taken advantage of the legislation of 1890 and 1900 to build the first large council estates .
24 Virgin , which owns the sixth largest record company worldwide , will make the formal announcement today in London , writes Mary Fagan .
25 The multiple linear regression analysis showed that access to a hospital dietitian gave the second largest contribution to explaining variance in the random haemoglobin A 1 value .
26 If in doubt , please order the next larger size .
27 The new TI becomes the second largest engineering firm in the UK and one of the biggest in Europe
28 It does n't matter that fears of massive redundancies among office staff that greeted the first large computers proved groundless .
29 The Liberal gains were bigger , but Labour , with 191 seats , remained the second largest party .
30 In communal elections in Innsbruck on Sept. 24 the FPÖ and the local version of the Green Alternatives ( Grüne Alternativen — GA ) won seats and votes from both the ÖVP and the SPÖ , although the ÖVP remained the strongest party ; in Salzburg province on Oct. 8 the FPÖ improved its position while the SPÖ and the ÖVP both suffered losses ; in Lower Austria and Styria on March 25 , 1990 , the ÖVP retained its dominant position despite losing votes and seats to the FPÖ and the GA , while the SPÖ remained the second largest party ; and in Vorarlberg on April 1 the SPÖ lost its absolute majority on the Bregenz municipal council , which was taken over by an ÖVP chair .
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