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His achievement has not since been matched for sheer virtuosity and impact.

Talking to camera, he talks us through his ruse with a sociopathic good humour, and the callousness of his thinking is matched for sheer horror only by the ineptitude of the authorities who allowed him to get away with it.

Yet none can match for sheer left-field unpromisingness the 80-minute biography In the Realms of the Unreal.

This is Warka, a site few places on earth can match for sheer atmosphere, and a landmark in the human story.

No language can ever match for sheer dazzling musicality the speeches of Oberon, nor the sheer, reckless and wonderful insanity of Puck, nor the quite dazzling metamorphosis of poor Bottom.

When Leinster matched them for sheer willpower and then outclassed them in the semi-final of 2009 at Croke Park, something of their mystique seemed to evaporate.

In four spacious movements that together last more than half an hour, Dvorak pour his heart into music that matched Brahms for sheer luxury of invention and scrumptiousness of sound; once you have heard the inexplicably obscure, incongruously sublime Poco Andante, it will remain with you always as an irreplaceable treasure.

Pugh was matched for theatricality – and aced, for sheer beauty – by Giles, who created a ravishing wardrobe for a late-17th century Englishwoman reincarnated as a 21st-century supermodel.

Very few upcoming shows can match Fortitude for sheer potential.

But few can match Malcolm Tucker for sheer verbal brio.

Inevitably, he would be tackling rivals who could not hope to match him for sheer quality.