Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] top [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that nearly half of the top 500 companies in the European Community are British , led by British Telecom ? |
| 2 | The analysis was complicated slightly by the fact that some of the top 20 firms had registered with more than one regulator . |
| 3 | The massive £45-million building was planned when property prices in London seemed set to rise forever , but the scheme was still dependent on the top five floors being let out for an annual £6 million . |
| 4 | Eight of the top thirty companies in 1986 recorded losses , amounting to £19 million ( in 1987 six companies recorded losses totalling £14 million ) . |
| 5 | Also that of the top 100 companies , 56 are directly or indirectly involved with the motor industry . |
| 6 | According to Ulric Weil of Morgan Stanley , the US firm of industry analysts , by 1987 Japan will have closed any remaining gap in its ability to develop software on a par with that of the top American firms . |
| 7 | However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase . |
| 8 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 9 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 10 | In a place like Kingston-upon-Hull in Humberside , 68% of homes are in the lowest ( £40,000 and under ) band , and fewer than 1% are in either of the top two bands ( more than £120,000 ) . |
| 11 | Such tables show NEC , Hitachi and Toshiba occupying three of the top five slots from 1985 , and Japanese companies occupying six of the top ten world chip league places in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 12 | Remarkably , three of the top five gates were in the Second Division — at Halifax , Hull KR and Ryedale York , where 5,000 watched the inaugural game at the club 's swish new stadium in the suburbs . |
| 13 | The Smiths won best group , top songwriters , fourth and twelfth best LPs , three of the top twenty singles and Marr was top instrumentalist with Morrissey taking second best dressed person , fourth most wonderful human being and an appropriate placing in the ‘ creep of the year ’ award . |
| 14 | This caused some concern to all present as the top two positions were now held by Scots . |
| 15 | He based his tax cuts on American research by Lindsey that concluded that reductions in the top tax rates to the American Government in 1981/82 were costless as the top 170,000 taxpayers ended up paying $26.6bn under new legislation instead of $26bn under the old . |
| 16 | Only the gorilla is particularly close to us in evolutionary terms ( though all of the top 10 animals are mammals ) , but many of the other favourites are distinctly humanoid in appearance , either because they sometimes stand upright , such as otters and polar bears , or because they have vaguely human-like faces . |
| 17 | According to South African manager and former international referee Steve Strydom , the South African students selection , though without any current Springboks in its ranks , is as strong as many of the top provincial sides taking part in the Currie Cup . |
| 18 | Many of the top new corporations in the world are Japanese . |
| 19 | Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list . |
| 20 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 21 | Babolat , a French company , provide strings — mainly natural gut — for 33 of the top 100 men and 24 of the top women players . |
| 22 | The San Remo produced another strong performance from the Lancias , three finishing in the top four places . |
| 23 | The famous alphabet length below Nellies Beck saw most of the action producing five of the top six weights . |
| 24 | Over half the bottom third and more than three-quarters of the top third pupils provided appropriate names for the cube , cylinder , pyramid and cone . |
| 25 | He said a Labour survey of household contents insurance costs at nine of the top British firms showed the average family would be paying a 19pc increase this year alone . |
| 26 | ‘ I went to a couple of big pension experts , local advisers , company reps and one of the top four banks to ask what I should do , ’ says Alan . |
| 27 | Within about a year of the company 's formation and Taylor 's strategic review , Medeva had become the UK market leader in two of its four chosen fields and one of the top 10 suppliers to the NHS . |
| 28 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 29 | WREXHAM turned out a depleted side for their McDonalds Young Athletes League fixture at Rotherham but in teenager Craig Jones had one of the top individual performers . |
| 30 | ‘ He reached the World semi-final last year at Bradford which makes him one of the top 32 riders in the world . |