Example sentences of "[verb] [art] longest [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular family in Cotherstone must be able to claim the longest aggregate of service to the Fields , amounting to some hundreds of years . |
| 2 | The flaws are only minor cracks in the huge achievement of Brook and his collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere in bringing the longest poem in the world to television , to explore and exploit its illusions in gripping narrative and dazzling images.H.H . |
| 3 | The year before the Baptists had sent a telegram to Queen Victoria congratulating her on completing the longest reign in British history . |
| 4 | JACKY Durand , 25 , one of the lesser known French professionals , produced the longest escape in the history of the Tour of Flanders yesterday to win the 164 miles Belgian classic at Meerbeke . |
| 5 | Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft . |
| 6 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 7 | Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest . |
| 8 | Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) . |
| 9 | The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world . |
| 10 | She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania . |
| 11 | Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer . |
| 12 | Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list . |
| 13 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 14 | And I see you 've got the longest trip to the sunniest country . |
| 15 | WordStar has probably got the longest pedigree of any of the current word processing packages , harking back to CP/M and beyond . |
| 16 | Marking the longest campaign of the Second World War , it starts with a review of the Fleet on 26 May , followed by five days of festivity , including a march by more than 2,000 veterans through Liverpool . |
| 17 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 18 | Britain is now experiencing the longest drought on record since 1745 . |
| 19 | Although British women who qualify do have the longest leave in Europe ( 30 weeks ) , three months of it is unpaid . |
| 20 | Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal , giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates . |
| 21 | About 15 minutes drive away from Gdynia is the resort of Sopot , famous for its beautiful beach and for having the longest pier on the Baltic Coast as well as excellent shopping facilities . |
| 22 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 23 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 24 | Factors taken into consideration are , in decreasing order of priority : minimisation of the number of free valences of the CRU ; maximisation of the number of most preferred heteroatoms in the ring system ; retaining the most preferred ring system ; and choosing the longest chain for an acyclic CRU . |
| 25 | You take the longest bit of candle , but be quick . ’ |
| 26 | For those who find walking just a little to much like hard work , take the longest chairlift in Europe to the ‘ First ’ peak at 7,150 ft and enjoy the glorious views and the grandeur of the mountains without being out of breath ! |
| 27 | She had trapped a fellow-student at Cambridge — ‘ Brian had the longest hair in college , ’ she chirped admiringly , ‘ and as soon as we 'd graduated , we got married — for fun . ’ |
| 28 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 29 | The position of Thakin Soe , who had the longest record of underground resistance , was even more unclear . |
| 30 | It maintains the longest contact with the skin when it is most required . |