Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century .
2 The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications .
3 In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end .
4 In many cases the choice can be made much later , at the beginning of the second or even third year .
5 Every fourth or possibly fifth generation , the youngest son or daughter of each house has to appear before the Panel of Judges — ’
6 This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year .
7 We had failed to discover a third or even fourth hole and still the water was rising .
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