Example sentences of "world record " in BNC.
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| 1 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 2 | SAID AOUITA , the 1500 metres , 3,000m and 5,000m world record holder , has criticised what he called lenient treatment of the disgraced Canadian sprinter , Ben Johnson , saying that athletes who take drugs should be banned from competition for life . |
| 3 | Mr Lavery , however , weighed his champion in at 710lbs , 39lbs over the world record . |
| 4 | The latest Disneyland , near Tokyo , has been a roaring success , recently beating the world record for the most visitors at an attraction in a day . |
| 5 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 6 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 7 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 8 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 9 | But he thinks a score of 8,300 would be enough to win , compared to his world record of 8,847 , so he will not rule it out . |
| 10 | OK , so they 'll come a time when I 'm not challenging the world record . |
| 11 | 1964 was the year of the Tokyo Olympics , where Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon in 2hrs 12mins 11.2secs and Ken Matthews of Great Britain won the 20km walk in 1hr 29mins 34.0secs . |
| 12 | These differences in athletic performance might not be very large , a matter of only a few per cent , but for world-class athletes , the difference between a world record and a mediocre performance can be only fractional . |
| 13 | According to The Mirage Resort , the gate receipt from the crowd of 16,000 was a world record of $9.1million ( £6m ) , which seems slightly suspect since that works out an average of $500 before one takes account of the undisclosed figure of complimentary tickets . |
| 14 | That clearly meant a record — a world record of 4min 6.4sec . |
| 15 | But that performance and the world record before the war inspired one young spectator at the White City , Roger Bannister , who was to run the first four-minute mile nine years later , and set off a string of British world record breakers , Derek Ibbotson , Sebastian Coe , Steve Ovett and Steve Cram . |
| 16 | But that performance and the world record before the war inspired one young spectator at the White City , Roger Bannister , who was to run the first four-minute mile nine years later , and set off a string of British world record breakers , Derek Ibbotson , Sebastian Coe , Steve Ovett and Steve Cram . |
| 17 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 18 | The Social Climbers by Chris Darwin and John Amy ( Mainstream , £12.99 ) — A black-tie dinner in a blizzard on the 22,000-foot summit of Peru 's highest and most unpronounceable mountain , where the guests almost die of hypothermia , sets a world record , raises money for charity and gets Charles Darwin 's great-great-grandson on to a Japanese television show for freaks . |
| 19 | O'Reilly world record goes |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S world champion , Wilf O'Reilly , last night broke the world record in the 500-metre heats with 44.07 sec , to qualify for the world short-track championships quarter-finals in Denver , writes Cathy Gibb . |
| 21 | The field of Old Master and modern drawings has been much less hyped than other markets and rarely sees fireworks like the world record of £4.18 million paid for a Van Gogh drawing in December 1990 . |
| 22 | KIEREN Perkins achieved his second world record in 48 hours when he clocked 14min 48.40sec in the men 's 1,500 metre freestyle at the Australian Open championships in Canberra last night . |
| 23 | One of the new criteria , which would rule out Boston , New York and London as races with world record credentials , is that the start should not be further away from the finish than 30 per cent of the total distance run . |
| 24 | In March , the Picture department , when pushed , warily quoted Canaletto 's world record of £1.2 million to the press , while Daniel and Cyrus was put ‘ in the Mantegna league ’ , which translated as £7–8 million . |
| 25 | On Tuesday at Christie 's , a one-owner collection includes a neckful of serious diamonds by that ‘ Jeweller to the stars ’ , Harry Winston ( $600/800,000 ) ; while on Wednesday at Sotheby 's , a necklace with 25 huge pearls should not be far from the world record of $1.26 million . |
| 26 | Christie 's is hoping to break the world record for a Titanic item ( £8,250 , for a watercolour , Fitting Out the Titanic by Charles Dickson , Onslow 's 1988 ) with a whole archive of Marconi cables . |
| 27 | Holding just beat Heinz Frei , Switzerland 's world record holder , for second place . |
| 28 | They fear the power of the example he set by completing a world record 87 marathons , in 13 different nations in the year to March 15 . |
| 29 | THE world record for Titanic memorabilia was beaten at Christie 's South Kensington yesterday , when a collection of signals from the doomed ship fetched £66,000 against an estimate of £8,000 to £10,000 . |
| 30 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |