1 The car will cruise at 80 mph in top gear.

2 They cruised along in top gear.

3 Her career is moving into top gear.

4 During this period, Japan's export industries were in top gear .

5 The party organization is moving into top gear as the election approaches.

6 The party's election campaign is now moving into top gear.

7 If you try to start off in top gear you'll stall.

8 It was downhill in top gear now.

9 Accelerate smartly so that you can get into top gear as quickly as possible.

10 With a 34-0 lead, top gear was no longer required.

11 It was ready to move into top gear at very short notice.

12 Quins had started in top gear with Will Carling ripping through the Rugby midfield for the opening try.

13 Bath could not hit their top gear of late as they too slithered around in the wet.

14 Meanwhile Pistol Packer was getting into top gear on the stands side, and Caro and Arlequino were not done with.

15 During filming for Top Gear, it was claimed he damaged a peat bog in Scotland.

16 The Chinese do not hunger for episodes of "Slovenija Ima Talent" (Slovenia's Got Talent) or "Top Gear Russia".

17 Top Gear test driver The Stig unmasked as professional stuntman and Le Mans racer Ben Collins.

18 If Top Gear is a rock band, aren't these expensive stunts a self-indulgent concept album too far?

19 But it was after the interval that Alton really moved into top gear.

20 He just had to adjust to the wide outside and Bones's new top gear, hitherto unsuspected.

21 Engine noise is not a problem once it's in top gear.

22 Its super - Keynesian expansionary response to the global recession has put the economy back into top gear.

23 May, a donnish, genteel man nicknamed Captain Slow by his colleagues for his championing of comfort over speed in cars, thinks Top Gear gives viewers vicarious pleasure.

1 The car will cruise at 80 mph in top gear.