1.   As head of the Community Oriented Policing Services program, Brann will oversee one of the largest grant programs administered by the Justice Department.

2.   Compared with the largest grants of last year, for example, the gift from Marcus is topped only by a donation by Microsoft multibillionaire Bill Gates.

3.   Finally the festival received the largest grant ever given by the council to a start-up organization.

4.   In return, the organizations that have received his largest grants have been glorifying him on plaques and building facades, in program books and even advertisements.

5.   Mayoral aides said later that the money was the largest single grant the city ever devoted to culture, although the money goes to a group of institutions.

6.   The three largest grants handed out by the endowment went to nonprofit television companies in New York.

7.   The sponsors said the gift is among the largest single philanthropic grants ever offered in environmental circles.

8.   It was described as the largest single foreign grant ever received by Sri Lanka.

9.   Newspapers described it as the largest single foreign grant Sri Lanka has ever received.

10.   The Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program, announced today, is the largest grant the New York City-based nonprofit foundation has ever undertaken.