Example sentences of "among the worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the worst is the Department of Education 's headquarters secretariat — serving ministers and top civil servants — which costs £4.19 a time , but can produce only 29 memos per typist per day . |
| 2 | If so , this would suggest a social preference for regarding killings of these kinds as among the worst because of the circumstances in which they occur , rather than because of the defendant 's awareness of the possible consequences . |
| 3 | New figures presented to the pensioner 's parliament confirmed that Britain 's state pension provision is among the worst in the community . |
| 4 | Paul Harrison 's Inside the Inner City : Life under the Cutting Edge focused on Hackney , a London borough ranked among the worst off on any scale of urban deprivation ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Hampshire , Kent , and the Thames Valley are among the worst 10 . |
| 6 | Among the worst affected areas were Lincolnshire , where visibility was down to 50 yards , Cumbria , where roads were described as ‘ hazardous ’ , and the M25 in Hertfordshire , which was hit by ice and freezing fog . |
| 7 | Days lost from 1987 to 1991 average 126 per 1,000 employees — a 70 per cent drop against the 1982–86 period , when Britain 's record for industrial strikes was among the worst in the Community . |
| 8 | Among the worst rewards are some salary and wage systems . |
| 9 | Maternal and infant mortality rates are among the worst in Asia , while literacy figures , especially in women , are getting worse year by year . |
| 10 | My head is buzzin' like a hive of bees ’ ) and ‘ Wonderland ’ ( ‘ Succumbing to the he-dog sound/Of the mystifying beat combo That breaks down your door ’ ) among the worst offenders . |
| 11 | A century later the French nobility would be among the worst affected victims of the activities of the routiers , often called Companies , whose particular style of war entailed the destruction of a wide variety of noble revenues . |
| 12 | The feat was all the more admirable in that the notorious Armstrongs had been among the major headaches in the region under his own jurisdiction , and Willie was among the worst . |
| 13 | General indices of health are among the worst in the world , ranking with such countries as Bangladesh and Haiti . |
| 14 | Arabic : not-was , but-I , was-it , saw-I , saw-I , saw-I , occupied-I , since then , among the worst saw-I , pleases-me . |
| 15 | ‘ Among the worst , ’ Nicky supported her calmly . |
| 16 | I welcome the Government 's measure to protect hedgerows and their management , but among the worst offenders in grubbing up hedgerows are local highway authorities . |
| 17 | It is certainly true that , a few years ago , waiting lists in North East Thames area were among the worst in the country . |
| 18 | Among the worst incidents were serious clashes between rival fans at a World Cup qualifying match between the Netherlands and West Germany in Rotterdam in April 1989 and the abandonment of an international club fixture in September in Amsterdam after the goalkeeper from the visiting team had been hit by an iron rod . |
| 19 | EIRIS named Allied-Lyons , BTR , Grand Metropolitan , Hanson , ICI , Shell and SmithKline Beecham as among the worst offenders . |
| 20 | Among the worst culprits , the report says , are copper mines . |
| 21 | in recent years but among the worst must be the reduction by the Home Office of taxable funding |
| 22 | The Chief Prisons Inspector Judge Stephen Tumim says it 's among the worst prison accommodation he 's seen . |
| 23 | His report says : ’ Inmate accommodation was among the worst we had seen ’ in his report on the prison . |
| 24 | Gloucesterahire 's roads are among the worst in Britain . |
| 25 | Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’ |
| 27 | In one of Europe 's sickest countries — Scotland 's heart disease and cancer rates cluster round the top of the league tables — Glasgow 's health record remains among the worst . |
| 28 | While one in ten agreed ICI was doing a fair share to reduce its impact and using its scientific skills to develop ‘ greener ’ products , the environment journalists still rated the company among the worst polluters — alongside British Coal , Fisons , British Nuclear Fuels and Powergen . |