Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] the [num ord] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland has the fourth highest number of smoking related deaths in the U K. Low birth weights are more common . |
| 2 | Clacton has the third highest rate in Britain . |
| 3 | Wolverhampton has the fifth highest overheads of any education authority in England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , Northern Ireland has the third highest death rate from skin cancer in the world . |
| 6 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 7 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 8 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 9 | Malaysia has the fourteenth largest gas reserves in the world at some 926 MTOE . |
| 10 | Egypt has the second largest population in Africa ( after Nigeria ) and in 1983 was the fourth largest oil producer . |
| 11 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 12 | In terms of per capita income Norway has the second highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 13 | Peru has the seventh largest tropical forest mass in the world . |
| 14 | Britain has the second highest percentage of tree damage after Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Fish features strongly as nearby Newlyn has the third highest fish landings in England . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although he can not escape from the linearity of language ( see 7.2 , 7.5.3 ) , James does the next best thing , which is to fasten our attention initially on the most immediate feature of Pemberton 's predicament : his uncomfortable sense of indecision , and then to expatiate on it so that by the time we have threaded our way through two paragraphs , we have built up a sensitive grasp of the coexisting intricacies and ironies of that predicament ( the ironies will concern us in section C below ) . |