Example sentences of "the large [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM has posted the largest ever annual loss in US corporate history — $4.96 billion . |
| 2 | THE largest ever new product offering was on show at the ‘ Wedgwood 1993 ’ annual trade fair at Barlaston . |
| 3 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 4 | The turning point in our campaign came in 1987 when the Easthall Residents Association ( ERA ) and our allies worked together on two unique initiatives — the Heatfest Housing Project and ‘ Housing makes you Sick ’ — the largest fully independent survey into housing and health ever carried out in Britain . |
| 5 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 6 | In modern biology sex is defined purely in terms of the size of the sex cell and the convention is that the male has the small mobile sex cell and the female has the large relatively immobile sex cell and , with very few exceptions , this is found everywhere , throughout sexual animals , plants and fungi . |
| 7 | Moreover , the more effective the capital shares tax became , and the more the electorate approves of increases in this tax , the larger any consequent distribution of the derived revenue . |