Example sentences of "[prep] [art] top [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1963 Larner claimed that the figure had risen to 84 per cent , and in his major study conducted in the mid-1970's , Herman found that 82.5 per cent of the top 200 non-financial corporations were controlled by management . |
| 2 | The performance of the FT-SE 100 is published every stock market trading day and measures the overall performance of the top 100 British Companies . |
| 3 | Not so long ago Eamon Darcy was edged out of the top nine automatic spots , losing by a matter of a few points . |
| 4 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 5 | • when you could buy all of the top five best-selling singles and still have change form a pound ? |
| 6 | The U.K. , Germany and France have three of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world and Europe supplies 25% of the world 's sales of pharmaceutical products . |
| 7 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 8 | Two of the top 10 data-processing firms in Japan are numbered among these subsidiaries : Nippon Business Consultants and Hitachi Software Engineering ( HSE ) . |
| 9 | JOAN Collins , recently named one of the top 10 sexiest women of all time , flew into London from Argentina yesterday with just one thing on her mind — bed . |
| 10 | A survey of the top hundred British companies showed that 63 per cent . |
| 11 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 12 | First , of the top 12 international firms ' world audit market share , the Big Six now accounted for 87.7% and their share was growing . |
| 13 | Fig 2 gives a graphical representation of the top three exporting industries in Grampian , in comparison to the Scottish total . |
| 14 | In reality Cardiff Arms Park is one of the top three sporting venues in the UK — a super place to watch sport — and sport is what it is . |
| 15 | In Leeds United they were facing one of the top three English sides playing at the pinnacle of their powers . |
| 16 | The former Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier , bronze medallist in the World Student Games last year , will make the trip to Barcelona if he is one of the top three British scorers beyond the qualifying standard . |
| 17 | Of the top 50 European companies , no fewer than 27 were British . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend take time to congratulate British industry on the fact that it has achieved record exports in the past quarter , that 27 of the top 50 European companies are British and that Britain exports more of its national product than Japan ? |
| 19 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 20 | NO WONDER OXFORD IS ONE OF THE TOP TEN HIGH SPENDERS IN ENGLAND ! |
| 21 | It showed that two-thirds of the top 48 Scottish-based businesses would consider moving south if there were radical changes to the state of the union . |
| 22 | The pattern of shareholding in companies is changing rapidly , with a declining role for individuals , but even so , Scott has shown ( 1985 , p. 77 ) that 43 out of the top 250 British firms are still controlled through personal shareholding . |
| 23 | A recent study carried out by Management Today of the top 250 performing companies , highlights Rentokil at No. 46 . |
| 24 | Indeed , if local authorities were listed in terms of expenditure , 89 authorities would appear amongst the top 500 British companies . |
| 25 | Peugeot saw a fall , despite pushing 205 and 405 ranges into the top 10 best sellers for the month . |
| 26 | And those countries already in on the act surged ahead — notably South Korea , which moved into the top ten richest countries in the world . |
| 27 | The ISE is aiming at creating a Single European Market in the top 200 international equities in cooperation with European exchanges , with one price mechanism ( centred in London , the ISE hopes ) , although plans are at an early stage . |
| 28 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 29 | Nevertheless he has not been slow to seize on the results of such paperwork and the publication of tables , which have shown Edinburgh 's research ranks in the top four British universities . |
| 30 | The Miss Marple Mysteries , featuring Agatha Christie 's elderly sleuth have been sold to 60 countries as diverse as Germany , Zambia , Turkey and Nepal , and is ranked number two in the top 50 bestselling programmes of the last ten years . |