Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
| 2 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 3 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 4 | The case for the third , fourth and fifth defendants before this court , as before Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , is based upon the undisputed fact that none of the payments made by the investors was made to these defendants . |
| 5 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
| 6 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 7 | CHILD star Macauley Culkin 's Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York has topped US box office takings for the third week in a row , earning Pounds 8 million . |
| 8 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 9 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 10 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 11 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 12 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten yesterday won the European Footballer of the Year award for the third time . |
| 13 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
| 14 | Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World . |
| 15 | If the glorifying speeches and writings of subleaders during the Third Reich itself are no proof of this , the behaviour of Nazi leaders arraigned at Nuremberg and post-war memoirs ( for all their obvious apologetics ) demonstrate it conclusively . |
| 16 | Two goals from Wayne Biggins kept Stoke on course for the Third Division title with a 3–0 home win over Darlington . |
| 17 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 18 | The Grundig World series , in its fifth year but now officially recognised by the International Cycling Union , will visit Strathpeffer in the Scottish Highlands for the third of 10 rounds on May 3-4 . |
| 19 | However , in 1977 the Munn Report recommended a common curriculum for the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools . |
| 20 | The cuts are despite what it says will be record turnover and unit shipments for the third quarter just ended , and operating profits for the quarter ‘ comfortably above ’ 1992 third quarter levels . |
| 21 | Morley Street carried off the Aintree Hurdle for the third successive year but was far from convincing in holding off Minorettes Girl . |
| 22 | It was rebuilt in the 19th century as an extravagant and idealized vision of the Middle Ages for the third Marquis of the Bute by the architect William Burges . |
| 23 | He gained public sympathy after the third Marquess of Salisbury , the prime minister , doubted that ‘ a British constituency would elect a black man ’ . |
| 24 | For the other metals there was little further decrease in contamination after the third collection . |
| 25 | In 15 cases endoscopic treatment was successful after one treatment session , in two cases after the second , and in one case after the third . |
| 26 | SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man . |
| 27 | the hotel then you come to the shops , on the left hand side about the third shop along |
| 28 | When the Foreign Secretary visits the Group of Seven summit in the summer , will he bang some heads together to try to bring forward a new deal for the third world ? |
| 29 | In their conclusion Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 , p. 541 ) suggest that systems methods have illuminated thought , clarified objectives , and cut through the theoretical and technical undergrowth during the third quarter of the twentieth century in a most striking manner but in addition : |
| 30 | It is in this context that the Conservative party presented its new programme for the third term , following the Queen 's speech ; a set of policies lent a coherence by the inner city problem : |