Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be his 10th attempt and , with a highest place finish of 16th in 1991 , the former Open and US Masters champion confessed he does not know what lies ahead . |
| 2 | Ray Floyd failed to join them recently when he finished tied for 8th in the Bank One Classic . |
| 3 | PAIN IN SPAIN : The anguish of Liz McColgan , beaten into fifth in the Olympic10,000m last night |
| 4 | Royal Athlete later went on to run a cracking race into third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and must have a marvellous chance at the weights . |
| 5 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |
| 6 | Ratners , the jewellery chain attempting to re-establish its former prominence , jumped to first place from seventh in April , while BT slipped from the top slot to No 7 . |
| 7 | With the exception of round carrots , which may be sown in first in pots , and kohl rabi , which is not a true root , all root crops are sown directly into the ground because their tap roots will be misshapen if transplanted . |
| 8 | His sharp question brought a flush to the face of the man who was so insistent upon helping Jenna , and she decided to get her word in first in view of Alain 's forbidding looks . |
| 9 | In both cases you are able to order the cache in first in first out order , alphabetically , or search the contents using wild cards . |
| 10 | The new towns did well : Stevenage , for example , rose from 123rd in 1951 to 86th in 1971 , Basildon from 122nd to 75th . |
| 11 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 12 | A much more important statistic however , is the ability to travel from 50 to 70mph in 3rd in just 3.4 seconds . |
| 13 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 14 | Lion Cavern came from last in a slowly-run race and displayed commendable resolution to emerge a narrow but worthy winner . |
| 15 | The one journeyman pro it 's all right to like , John Daly , came third from last in the US PGA . |
| 16 | And , in his fairly secret life as an author , David Nobbs wrote the extraordinary Second From Last In The Sack Race , the epic tale of Henry Pratt . |
| 17 | The sort of book that has sane adults moving rapidly through all kinds of emotions , especially the laughing kind , Second From Last In The Sack Race is one of the best comic novels ever written , funny and sad and , perhaps inevitably , very northern . |
| 18 | I finished third from last in the section only beating the three pegs the other side of the bridge , come to mention it the bloke the other side of the bridge never caught a fish . |
| 19 | Scotland trailed in last in the Boys Quadrangular International , yesterday at Is Molas , Sardinia , after following Saturday 's defeat against France with a 8-4 loss at the hands of host nation Italy . |
| 20 | The document also asserts that Pearl 's market position in new annual premiums for UK life and pensions business fell from third in 1978 to 15th by 1988 . |
| 21 | Muse 's stablemate Oh So Risky , three lengths back in third in the Elite , renews rivalry . |
| 22 | Allan did qualify , and ran well for fifth in the final . |
| 23 | Sgt. Robertson , who was flying about fifth in the line of Hurricanes ( in V7495 ) , and who recorded that the success of the attack owed much to Lambert 's leadership and positioning of the squadron , attacked another Stuka from astern , setting fire to the starboard wingroot . |
| 24 | The 31-year-old from Kenilworth slumped to 84th in the rankings this year but has regained his enthusiasm after two rounds with Woosnam . |
| 25 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 26 | With substantially the same staff as the previous year , but without their exciting right-winger , Palace slumped to 15th in the table . |
| 27 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 28 | Adversely affected in the 1970s by the United Kingdom 's entry to the European Communities and by fluctuating oil prices , New Zealand declined from a position of having the third highest standard of living ( as measured by per capita GDP ) in 1951 to 15th in 1971 and 23rd by 1991 . |
| 29 | The former cocaine user , who slumped from fourth to 59th in the world , now lives in his native Canada . |
| 30 | Yes welcome to Talking Sport , good evening , tonight 's headlines ; a disappointing result at the Manor as Oxford United outplay Charlton , especially in the first half , but concede a goal late on to finish as a one all draw , and they drop to eighteenth in the table . |