Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] top [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of the top thirty companies in 1986 recorded losses , amounting to £19 million ( in 1987 six companies recorded losses totalling £14 million ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Babolat , a French company , provide strings — mainly natural gut — for 33 of the top 100 men and 24 of the top women players . |
| 9 | The famous alphabet length below Nellies Beck saw most of the action producing five of the top six weights . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He reached the World semi-final last year at Bradford which makes him one of the top 32 riders in the world . |
| 17 | Now he 's one of the top personal trainers in the country . |
| 18 | Earlier in the week Kit Prescott and I had a long , relaxed hour and a half with one of the top African politicians . |
| 19 | Solar-powered house in Europe : BP Solar has established itself as one of the top two suppliers of photovoltaics in Europe . |
| 20 | For adults with savings above £150,000 it performs even better , as one of the top two nationals . |
| 21 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 22 | An attractive young woman who now holds one of the top six positions in an American corporation began as assistant to the chairman and was subjected to many innuendoes about their relationship . |
| 23 | ‘ Newcastle are one of the top six clubs in this country . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Alastair may also be appearing at this year 's Coca Cola Lisburn Triathlon , which is one of the top local triathlons . |
| 25 | His playing , and teaching , did however consolidate what several people had already told me — that even at this age , Ruggiero Ricci as still one of the top ten violinists in the world . |
| 26 | video hire chart , update you on the new releases , and give you the chance to win one of the top ten films . |
| 27 | He was a caver too , probably one of the top ten cavers in Britain , and known well in potholing circles far and wide for his work with Oliver Monks in diving the Kingsdale master system . |
| 28 | Most people who commit suicide are depressed ( Robins , 1981 ) , and suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in most European countries ( Kreitman , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be one of the top 25 meetings in the world this year and will attract all the top athletes before the Olympic Games because it will be their last big test before Barcelona , ’ said Andy Norman , the British Amateur Athletic Board promotions officer . |
| 30 | It is important that the children of the upper class attend the ‘ right ’ sort of school ( a public school ) and preferably one of the top public schools . |