Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] [prep] [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He reached the World semi-final last year at Bradford which makes him one of the top 32 riders in the world . |
| 2 | Planning for the rest of 1992 , and indeed for the foreseeable future , will be driven b ; y the Canadian Rugby Union 's new mission statement : ‘ To develop the potential of rugby in Canada to maintain our competitive position in the top eight countries in the world . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 4 | Over the next couple of years , Intelmet plans to link another 30 hotels around the world . |
| 5 | After playing no competitive chess for 20 years , Fischer 's comeback in beating Spassky — still an active player and rated in the top 100 players in the world — by 10 games to 5 with 15 draws is a remarkable achievement that would ( if it was rated ) earn him a place in the world 's top ten players . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be one of the top 25 meetings in the world this year and will attract all the top athletes before the Olympic Games because it will be their last big test before Barcelona , ’ said Andy Norman , the British Amateur Athletic Board promotions officer . |
| 7 | Univel has recently signed some 25 distributors around the world to handle UnixWare ( UX No 398 ) by simply piggybacking on to Novell 's base and expanding on their existing Novell contracts . |
| 8 | Top ten apples in the world |
| 9 | His playing , and teaching , did however consolidate what several people had already told me — that even at this age , Ruggiero Ricci as still one of the top ten violinists in the world . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless Plc is exploiting its Global Digital Highway with a new Global Managed Data Service to provide data communications service in 15 countries , reaching over 100 cities in North America , Europe and Asia Pacific ; another 50 countries around the world will be able to get into the system via the local public data network , the firm said . |
| 11 | Produces the leading brand of Scotch whisky in eight out of the top fifteen markets in the world . |
| 12 | Every Autumn 2.2 million square feet of computer hardware and software attracts some 140,000 visitors to the world 's largest computing event — COMDEX ‘ Fall in Las Vegas . |
| 13 | He showed that when winning the prestigious Stuttgart tournament in February when he beat the top two players in the world within seven days . |
| 14 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 15 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 16 | The World Data Matrix ( Appendix A ) contains data for the largest 100 countries of the world and some of the African countries whose borders have been digitized are not included . |
| 17 | Almost 80 per cent of an estimated 17,000,000 refugees in the world were in the 47 countries classified by the UN as LDCs . |
| 18 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 19 | If you take the largest ten banks in the world , there 's not a single British bank among them . |
| 20 | In 1950 there were an estimated 50 million cars in the world ; in 1986 , 386 million . |
| 21 | Very roughly , about one-third of the 2,500 million acres of the world 's land which are naturally suitable for cultivation are in Europe . |
| 22 | While the Blue Jays licked their wounds , the Athletics began the celebrations prior to hosting the first two games of the World Series at the Coliseum next weekend . |
| 23 | This unassuming author is one of the city 's best-known celebrities since the success of the books and TV series about the character who has become one of the all-time greats with some 750 million viewers around the world . |
| 24 | ‘ When you get the best eight players in the world together in a round robin tournament like this , there can be no favourites , ’ said world No 1 Jim Courier . |
| 25 | Of his prospects for the rest of the tournament , he said : ‘ When you have the best eight players in the world , every match is like the final of a big tournament . |
| 26 | ‘ We needed him ’ , said Tuibua of the man he described as ‘ one of the best sevens players in the world ’ . |
| 27 | That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game . |
| 28 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 29 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 30 | Thirty seven workers at a world famous piano factory have been told they 're out of a job . |