Example sentences of "had the highest [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Distribution had the highest price to earnings valuation of 20.1 followed by Components at 19.2 , Application Hardware at 18.8 and Peripherals at 7.3 .
2 Japan had the highest figures for longevity ( 82.5 years for women and 76.2 for men ) while the USA rated respectively 16th for women ( 78.6 ) and 23rd for men ( 71.6 ) .
3 The country had the highest sulphur dioxide emission per head of population in Europe [ see p. 36792 ] and according to the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , 1990 , one power station burning brown coal in Cottbus produced more pollution annually than Norway and Denmark together .
4 The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength .
5 Less than two years ago , at the end of the Gulf War , he had the highest poll rating of any President .
6 The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe .
7 For example , the three areas with most farmers in the older age bracket — Derbyshire , Leicestershire and Cumbria — also had the highest proportion of family attenders at courses .
8 with the exception of Ancash , they also had the highest proportion of people living in urban places .
9 The FSE/SAM group had the highest proportion of never smokers ( 83% , 924/1113 ) , and the SAM group the lowest ( 74% , 732/989 ) ; the 148 pupils for whom smoking status was not known were excluded from the data .
10 The two IT subject areas which had the highest proportion of SERC-funded students in employment and the lowest levels seeking were micro-electronics and the IKBS/MMI/AI group .
11 Germany had the highest proportion of sales of unleaded fuel at 74 per cent .
12 One had the highest absorption over the whole PEG range , recovery in the urine varying from 5.43 to 9.13% .
13 Though the highbrow press had the highest level of political content , it also had relatively partisan readers , and more of a mission to inform , less of a mission to persuade .
14 Zone D , the only zone with an increased level of referral after the guidelines , also had the highest level of referral before the guidelines .
15 In 1982 , the United Kingdom had the highest level of unemployment among the seven major countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) .
16 Mathematics journals had the highest standing internationally , with nearly a third of contributions coming from abroad .
17 Early development studies in SIXEP ( site ion exchange effluent plant ) at Sellafield showed that the sodium form of clinoptilolite had the highest preference for caesium and this has been confirmed by work at this university on both US and Indonesian natural clinoptilolites .
18 For her intelligence , beauty and charm he had the highest admiration ; it evoked a poem ‘ Party At Hydra : For Marianne ’ .
19 Polio had been almost eradicated in Brazil , but by 1986 the country had the highest incidence of polio in Latin America because it had to cut back spending on immunization .
20 Uganda had the highest incidence of AIDS cases proportional to its population .
21 In terms of Darwinian theory , the most successful groups were those who had the highest reproduction rate .
22 This patient had the highest serum aspartate aminotransferase ( 940 IU/l ) activity of the PSC patients .
23 FAO statistics show that in the period from 1971–80 , Latin America had the highest growth rate ( 3.9 per cent ) in food production of the various world regions ( Figueroa 1985 ) .
24 Estonia , the most prosperous of the three , had the highest levels of car ownership of any of the Soviet republics and the greatest quantity of urban housing in the late 1980s .
25 First worked in the 1790S , this mine had the highest production record among the local firms .
26 Housing Revenue Account deficits are zero for most Authorities , but can be quite large ; Camden had the highest figure per head in 1985/6 , but the subsequent transfer of GLC deficits to individual Boroughs in the following year led to Tower Hamlets showing by far the largest deficit per head , at £286 .
27 This journal had the highest median and modal number of authors and published a high proportion of multiauthor or collaborative studies ( 21% in 1988 ) .
28 Japan had the highest productivity and consistently high average scores for indicators of project success and cultural factors confusing to Western minds .
29 The first neutrons to arrive had the highest energy and the later ones had lower energies .
30 Three years later Martinstown , Dorset , had the highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in 24 hours , 11 inches .
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