Example sentences of "it was [prep] [art] third [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking .
2 The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came .
3 It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place .
4 The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market .
5 It was after the third year of struggle that we decided to go militant .
6 It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while .
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