Sentence examples for the nearest British from inspiring English sources
The nearest British warship was days away.
What's the nearest British equivalent?
A dashing kingfisher would be the nearest British equivalent.
Felixstowe is a busy modern container port, the nearest British port to Europoort and Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The nearest British equivalent would have to combine fox-hunting, Iraq, NHS funding and paedophiles.
By rail: The nearest British rail stations are Charing Cross, Victoria and Embankment.
In the 1970s, before you could fly to Malaga on Easyjet for 60 quid, the nearest most British people got to seeing the sun was taking a vandalised British Rail train to Clacton-on-Sea.
It was the nearest the British ever got to putting the EIC on trial, and they did so with one of their greatest orators at the helm – Edmund Burke.
The nearest the British cinema industry comes to a mention is the 17th (equal) place given to 2001: A Space Odyssey, made in 1968, by the American director, Stanley Kubrick, partly with British money and with British technicians.
The nearest a British male gets to glory is Oscar Wilde's eleventh with The Picture of Dorian Gray - and he was Irish.
It is, in fact, the nearest the British cinema has come to the power and honesty of John Singleton's 1991 picture about life in South Central LA, Boyz N the Hood, which in essential ways it resembles.
