Example sentences of "making [pron] the largest " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales . |
| 2 | Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world . |
| 3 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 4 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 5 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |
| 6 | The Works had now reached what was to be its zenith as regards workshops , covering an area of 80 acres of which 37 were workshops and offices , making it the largest in the UK solely devoted to carriage building and repair . |
| 7 | The operation will be coordinated locally by municipal agencies , historical societies and art museums that will enlist as many as 25,000 volunteers , making it the largest volunteer cultural project in the country . |
| 8 | Butterfield saw an increase in sales of 12% last year , making it the largest American auction house . |
| 9 | Edo mushroomed from the late sixteenth century and had an estimated population of around one million by the mid-eighteenth century , probably making it the largest city in the world at the time . |
| 10 | Up to 150,000 people joined the march in the city centre on Feb. 4 , making it the largest unofficial demonstration in the city since the immediate post-revolution period ; members of unofficial groups of almost every political persuasion joined in , from anarchists and separatists to right-wing Russian nationalists and monarchists . |
| 11 | The award ceremony took place in the canteen on a December afternoon where over 100 retired and serving members of the work force were gathered , making it the largest for many years . |
| 12 | If the EC were to become a single market it would have a domestic market of 320 million consumers , making it the largest market in the world . |
| 13 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |