Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] [adj -est] [noun sg] " 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 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 4 | ‘ The vaunted land of the free became the last best hope of organised crime , and it has never recovered . |
| 5 | He produced the second highest attendance in 150 years . |
| 6 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 7 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 8 | He was unopposed at Bewdley , and in the country as a whole , while losing a hundred seats ( the minimum which could be expected after 1931 ) , he still secured the second biggest majority of the century . |
| 9 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 10 | Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York , starring 11-year-old Macaulay Culkin , enjoyed the sixth biggest opening in history at the US box office . |
| 11 | In the St Ann 's study , the sick and disabled constituted the fourth largest category of the poor . |
| 12 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 13 | Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount . |
| 14 | She did the next best thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | so I said the next best thing I said is ring Sarah and she said she 'd already sent a gift , no have a conversation with her , is Lorraine coming today , no she said Terry 's decorating never said where |
| 17 | It will be recalled from discussion of Table 1 , Expenditure on libraries and computing , that Strathclyde had the second lowest expenditure per student on libraries in 1986-87 . |
| 18 | But , as a recent OECD publication Labour Market Policies for the 1990s ( OECD 1990a ) has shown , the United Kingdom , of all member countries , had the second lowest percentage of young people in full- or part-time education at the age of 17 in 1986 — 7 . |
| 19 | A member of the public asked why Liphook had the second highest precept . |
| 20 | Bel-Korhadris had the second longest reign of any Phoenix King . |
| 21 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 22 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 23 | Computing had the third highest percentage of SERC students in work ; |
| 24 | Computing had the third highest percentage in work , but was average in terms on those still looking at the end of their courses . |
| 25 | The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said that the rise in the seasonally adjusted figure was the lowest since last March and Scotland had the third lowest unemployment rate of all UK regions . |
| 26 | However , the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said Scotland now had the third lowest unemployment rate of all the UK regions . |
| 27 | The Liberal gains were bigger , but Labour , with 191 seats , remained the second largest party . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 30 | The Greens remained the third strongest party with 0.2 per cent more than before at 8.3 per cent . |