Examples of use of the
1. The evidence is all around us: the Gores, the Murkowskis, the Rockefellers, the Bakers, the Doles, the Bonos, the Meekses, the Dodds, the Tsongases, the Chafees.
2. The bigger the creature, the more slavering the fangs, the more terrifying the tentacles, the better.
3. The deceptions, the folly, the vanity, the casualties, the cost, the false hopes, the miscalculations, the increased danger.
4. In its descent the elevator, with a succession of long–suffering sighs, stopped at the 12th, the 11th, the 10th, the ninth, the eighth, the seventh, the sixth, the fifth, the fourth, the third and the second floors.
5. The bigger the players and the clearer the hierarchy, the lower the risk will be.