Example sentences of "[prep] the fittest [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 2 | Social Darwinism , with its emphasis on the survival of the fittest and chance variation , denied the effects of will , conscious planning and human agency in evolution , and of altering the fixed characteristics of different groups or races . |
| 3 | So erm , if you think about it , you could say well okay , if the evolution is all about survival of the fittest and if fitness means surviving longer |
| 4 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 5 | The company believed in survival of the fittest and during 1988/9 turnover in salespersons was just under two years on average ; four years previously the turnover period had been nearly three years . |
| 6 | Nearly three thousand runners … climbers … orienteers are competing in teams of two … among the fittest and fastest are two scientists from Oxfordshire … |