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Example sentences for: oup

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The problems of binding a 3800-page book are formidable, but it can be done, and I believe that OUP customers would have been better served by being offered a one-volume edition (perhaps with a needed lectern of its own), enabling the NSOED to compete more readily with the other main contenders among large dictionaries, the MWIII and the Random House Unabridged .
Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).
The reason is that OUP have cleaved to their favourite structural approach to the listing of compounds, phrases, and hyphenated words by nesting them beneath the “main” word.
This is all the more disappointing since other sections of OUP, along with other publishers of reference works, have made great strides forward in recent years.
[Liddell and Scott's Greek English Lexicon, OUP]