Example sentences of "greatest [noun] [prep] [noun] in the " in BNC.

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1 The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life .
2 Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music .
3 While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera .
4 The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents ,
5 The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise .
6 what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted .
7 There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ .
8 ‘ In the greatest age of enlightenment in the history of this earth ?
9 High Elf Mages are the greatest practitioners of magic in the world , born of a race who have studied the power of magic throughout their long lives .
10 On Nov. 1 the IDA , as the party with the greatest number of seats in the National Assembly , unanimously endorsed Sharif as Prime Minister , the first Punjabi to hold this office .
11 The diversity of the Welsh economy will be one of the greatest benefits to Wales in the years that lie ahead .
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