Example sentences of "[noun sg] were the [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had none of [ the former ] assets when I started at the Bar ; but my 25 years in practice were the happiest in my life . |
| 2 | The pinafore version naturally needed a blouse and items in unbleached white cotton were the cheapest of all to produce . |
| 3 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 4 | The average income in Allegheny West , for example , in 1980 was 35 per cent of the city average ( and this represented a decline on 1970 ) , yet house prices at sale were the highest in the city in 1983–84 . |
| 5 | Last year were the lowest on record . |
| 6 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 7 | Besides , it is n't even as if our Golf were the fastest of GTi 's . |
| 8 | She and Mother were the best of friends , and she knew that I was daft over dollies and wanted one so badly . |