    Sentence 1: This edition when published  was said to give more word definitions  than any other British desk dictionary;  including its. main. competitor, The  Concise Oxford . But in 1986 it was  moved into second place by the second  edition. of Collins Dictionary of the  English Language . (. Webster's New  World Dictionary of the American  Language seems about the same size as  the Oxford; the Gage Canadian  Dictionary is slightly smaller.)              Sentence 2: This dictionary was expected  to stayn first place for ever.    