Example sentences of "[adj -est] ever [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 2 | His century , the slowest ever for Australia , almost endorsed the selectors ' view that he had no part in the one-day side , while underlining what truly Test calibre he was . |
| 3 | Not quite a donkey but Wallaces goal to win the league at Sheff Utd will probably go down as the jammiest ever in my book . |
| 4 | And five minutes from time , he cheered a meagre 2,363 crowd — Pompey 's lowest ever for a competitive game at home — with a clinical winner after a right-wing burst from Warren Aspinall . |
| 5 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 6 | The turnout , officially recorded at only 28 per cent of the electorate of 13,170,000 , was the lowest ever in any Indian state election , below even that for Jammu and Kashmir in 1987 ( 31.6 per cent ) . |
| 7 | On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements . |
| 8 | The population sample was the largest ever for this kind of study , as was its timescale ( twenty-five years from 1960 to 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The first tomb to be excavated in 1991 was one of the largest ever to be scientifically excavated in the New World . |
| 10 | The good news is that the surplus of a hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred and eighty seven pounds after tax is the largest ever in the Association 's history . |
| 11 | This is the first IDB mission to target all four countries and is one of the largest ever from Northern Ireland to Scandinavia . |
| 12 | Preliminary investigations by Netherlands aviation officials indicated that the disaster , the worst ever in the Netherlands , was probably caused by aircraft metal fatigue stemming from excessive stress and corrosion . |
| 13 | He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years . |
| 14 | Bantam Press , celebrating the achievement by Jilly Cooper 's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous ( £14.99 ) of a subscription of 70,000 copies , the company 's highest ever for a hardback novel , is now looking forward to a further boost for the book when the CD and cassette single ‘ Lysander 's Theme ’ is released on 10th May . |
| 15 | But today , with highest unemployment levels for many years , it 's not the highest ever in some of our own regions , it 's a lot of nonsense . |
| 16 | And this year 's event biggest ever with five days of motorcycling embracing every branch of the sport , including trials and motocross . |
| 17 | Plans to make next year 's show at the Festival the biggest ever in Britain of British art . |
| 18 | The impact of the deal , the biggest ever in the Swedish market , will turn Procordia into one of Europe 's 20 largest pharmaceutical companies , with more than 48,000 employees and a yearly turnover approaching £3.5billion . |
| 19 | Cities were deserted and factories closed in the protest — the biggest ever in the strife-torn country — called by ANC leader Nelson Mandela . |
| 20 | The three-year NCP investigation is believed to be the biggest ever in this country into alleged industrial espionage . |
| 21 | Nigel Mansell put in a scorching lap in the opening qualifying session … the fastest ever at the Northamptonshire track … he was almost two seconds quicker than his team mate Riccardo Patrese … recording an average speed of more than one hundred and forty-eight miles an hour . |
| 22 | I looked my slimmest ever on my wedding day and thoroughly enjoyed my holiday . |