Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] top [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By convention , ACS gives a result in the top 2 quadrants ( 0 to PI-0 to 180 degrees ) and ASN and ATN in the right-hand 2 quadrants ( -PI/2 to +PI/2 — -90 to +90 degrees ) . |
| 2 | What has sustained him throughout , he says , has been the support of the top 20 firms and , crucially , the presence of non-practitioners — who make up half the membership — on the board . |
| 3 | FTSE index of the top 100 shares starts 28.2 points down . |
| 4 | The Footsie 100 Index of the Top 100 shares has more or less stood still this year . |
| 5 | The FTSE index of the top 100 shares slumped 37.5 points yesterday , cutting share values by an estimated £8bn . |
| 6 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
| 7 | The Institute is involved in research and in the practical restoration of the top cultural monuments . |
| 8 | The Scottish League , meanwhile , could soon consist of four divisions of ten clubs after a meeting of the top 12 clubs yesterday supported the principle of increasing the League 's membership from 38 to 40 teams . |
| 9 | As the results came in , there was delight that the rest of the top 10 rafts all came from Herefordshire . |
| 10 | And for those seeking a holiday full of adventure and mountain sunshine , we 're proud to present a wide selection of the top Austrian resorts . |
| 11 | In relation to the rest of the country , however , the share of the top six cities fell by 2.5 percentage points . |
| 12 | His own success , with its accumulation of titles , meant that by 1987 the circulation share of the top three groups had slipped back — but the number of titles within them was greater than ever . |
| 13 | Dario Cerrato was third to complete an Italian and Lancia sweep of the top three places . |
| 14 | The area between the top two profiles is the totally hypothetical cost of being female ; it is the same order of magnitude as the hypothetical cost of a woman becoming a mother . |
| 15 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 16 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 17 | IDC 's comparison of the top ten players in the UK market in 1991 shows IBM with 33.5% ; ICL with 20.6% ; DEC with 14.2% ; Compaq with 5.9% ; Unisys and Hewlett-Packard each with 5.4% ; ; Amstrad with 4.4% ; Olivetti with 3.9% ; NCR Corp with 3.4% ; Hoskyns with 3.2% . |
| 18 | He lives alone in a housing association flat on the top two floors of a house in Tufnell Park . |
| 19 | A recent estimate put his personal net worth at $2.6 billion , just $100 million shy of a listing among the top ten billionaires in the United States . |
| 20 | Despite the considerable damage , they found desks and filing cabinets intact and a preliminary inspection showed that valuable paintings by Sutherland and Bacon , in the executive suite on the top two floors , appeared to be intact . |
| 21 | Mr Tim Godfray , director of the Booksellers Association , said : ‘ If you have a complete free-for-all , supermarkets will just cream off the top 30 bestsellers . ’ |
| 22 | Looking at the present state of the Top 40 singles chart , the recent appearance of a song entitled Dolphins Make Me Cry by Welsh songwriter/guitarist Martyn Joseph was especially surprising . |
| 23 | Research on the level of concentration in Japan usually emphasizes the smaller share of output taken by large companies whether this is measured by the size of the top 100 companies or the share of the three or four biggest firms in each industry . |
| 24 | Ten British players qualified for the final leg with the top eight seeds — including five British — receiving byes into the second round . |
| 25 | Leaving aside the money that people drop in the street ( or when making telephone calls ) here is a list of the top five places where coin losses occur |
| 26 | In September , Survival International 's report Indians of the Americas — Invaded but not Conquered , and its account of the Top Ten companies responsible for invading Indian lands in the Americas , resulted , according to Survival , in threats of legal action from RTZ , the Body Shop and Shell . |
| 27 | The growth of the top eight firms in terms of the number of air tours authorized by the Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) is shown in Table 11.2 . |
| 28 | It 's high standing is shown by its being in the top three universities , along with Oxford and Cambridge , in the national table which shows the proportion of income derived from research grants . |
| 29 | It has provided the framework for the acceptance of Japan as a leading member of the top Western nations ' club , on the basis of an apparent willingness to accept many Western political and cultural values and a devotion to the pursuit of economic activity within the parameters of the US-dominated international economy . |
| 30 | In a survey of the top IT-based issues for managers in the UK , it was recently found that ‘ external data ’ ranked in importance as 23rd out of 23 issues of concern ! |