Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian took over in 1974 and will soon be celebrating his 90th programme in the chair . |
| 2 | The arbitrary division of Korea at the 38th parallel in 1945 was absurd economically , creating two areas which could not function efficiently in terms of what they possessed . |
| 3 | The mother was prompted when to let go and once Mary made a two-second break in her crying after several minutes of screaming she was told she could get up . |
| 4 | At Headingley , David Gower , thirty-three years old , became the youngest player to reach one hundred Test matches — or , as Don Mosey put it on the radio , he reached his hundredth Test in fewer games than anyone else . |
| 5 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 6 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 7 | The New Forest has been designated a Special Protection Area ( SPA ) for birds by the UK government , making it the 38th site in the UK so designated under the EC wild birds directive . |
| 8 | Canon Oates held another vigil to mark John 's five hundredth day in August . |
| 9 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 10 | He opened his eyes and prepared to correct his daughter for the several hundredth occasion in their lives together . |
| 11 | It is the 35th area in England to be given this designation . |
| 12 | Mathilde had planned a party for her , a party to celebrate her sixteenth birthday in a week 's time . |
| 13 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 14 | This was the fourth murder of a Sinn Féin member since May and the 59th killing in the province so far in 1991 . |
| 15 | After Lloyd chose to bat on a pleasant sunny day , Botham somehow managed to get the ball to swing and took 5 for 72 , including his three hundredth wicket in Tests . |
| 16 | Although Hinrich and Senta Medau are no longer with us , their work and inspiration live on through the second generation , while in this country the Medau Society celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 1987 . |
| 17 | In the west , large numbers of chapels are known which never became parish churches , but which are clearly pre-twelfth century in origin and had burial and baptism rights by that time . |
| 18 | In preparation , Cantini have a Corpus of Italian Paintings from the Sixteenth Century in Dutch Public Collections , with contributions by various authors on behalf of Florence 's Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte ( L60,000 ) . |
| 19 | A committee is to tackle the restoration of the small grotto constructed in the sixteenth century in the grounds of the villa celebrated in Borghini 's treatise , Il Riposo . |
| 20 | He is described as a teacher of rhetoric , but this was probably not a slightly anachronistic reference to Artemidorus of Daldis , whose dream-books were becoming popularly available in print on the Continent for the first time in the second half of the sixteenth century in Latin and Greek . |
| 21 | This changed in the sixteenth century in the case of London which grew very rapidly ( see figure 7.1 ) . |
| 22 | One of the major preoccupations of Soviet Russian ethnic historians , obliged to work within the framework of Marxist-Leninist dogma , is to define the level of social-political evolution which the peoples of Siberia had reached by the sixteenth century in terms of Marx 's five universal stages . |
| 23 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 24 | Oliver Stanley , the chairman , in announcing a 22 p.c. increase in pre-tax profits to £3.12m , said : ‘ We wanted to mark our 250th anniversary in 1992 with good results and we have done so . ’ |
| 25 | In honour of its 250th anniversary in 1993 , the company has embarked upon its first ever multi-media advertising campaign , comprising a series of three cinema commercials and four press and poster advertisements . |
| 26 | Lawyers ' history , however , had little basis in reality and the exclusion of women was by no means settled practice before the fourteenth century in the great fiefs of France ; indeed , Edward III 's title to Gascony derived from a woman , Eleanor , wife of Henry 11 . |
| 27 | The woodcut reproducible illustration , and even wooden letters for printing , made their first appearance in China , but it was as late as the fourteenth century in Europe before paper ( brought to Europe by the Arabs in the late twelfth century , when the traditional material of parchment was in short supply ) began to be extensively used for the new technology of xylography : repeatable woodcut designs in fabrics extended to rapidly reproducible illustrations . |
| 28 | But the judge usually takes the second course in cases concerning industrial relations . |
| 29 | The first part of the work now known as The Sexual Revolution was published by Reich in 1929 , and the second part in 1935 . |
| 30 | That is , some turns at talking come in pairs , such that one part of the pair requires the second part in response , while conversations have overall structures with well-bounded beginnings and endings . |