Example sentences of "oldest [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 2 | The oldest of the money markets is the discount market , but there are also the newer sterling and foreign currency markets . |
| 3 | The houses stand close to the road , with some of the oldest of the village 's houses , its two public houses , the post office and the local supermarket all enduring the unremitting throb of the traffic as cars and lorries pound through its narrow confines taking holidaymakers to the coast at the weekend and workers to the British Gas terminal at Easington through the week . |
| 4 | Waterloo Bridge , so named because it was built in the year of the battle ( 1815 ) , is one of the oldest of the iron bridges of considerable size . |
| 5 | And he was the second oldest of the family . |
| 6 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 7 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 8 | But then there is a third American dream , which is the oldest of the lot dating back to Puritan times , which stresses community , decentralisation , self-sufficiency , mutual aid and face-to-face democracy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The teachers said she would be the oldest in the nursery and would n't be with her peer group , ’ she explained . |
| 10 | Surprisingly I was the oldest in the race at nineteen , so the statisticians tell me . |
| 11 | The Faculty is one of the oldest in the University and has long been the home of many outstanding legal scholars and practitioners . |
| 12 | This vehicle , which bears the L & B Railway Company 's armorial device , is the oldest in the country and probably the world . |
| 13 | The Ipswich Junior Chamber was founded in 1929 and is the fourth oldest in the country . |
| 14 | Hawick 's sheep auction mart is the oldest in the country , while Kelso is still the centre for the huge annual Kelso Ram Sales . |
| 15 | Dr Apps , the oldest in the group at 33 , said he was well prepared for the cold conditions . |
| 16 | The basilica beside the columns is very ancient , one of the oldest in the city , founded in the fourth-century . |
| 17 | You were caught by an old trick — the oldest in the book . |
| 18 | Compared with peptic ulcer , these diseases are rare and not particularly prevalent among the oldest in the population . |
| 19 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
| 20 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 21 | But it 's the oldest in the world . |
| 22 | Oxford 's Botanic Garden is the third oldest in the world . |
| 23 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 24 | The first , the simple perceptron , is one of the oldest in the class . |
| 25 | The flowers mature in sequence , starting with the oldest at the top . |