Example sentences of "[adj] of the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 2 | Some of the third party claims examined will be based upon recognised legal rights and obligations , but others are based upon certain needs in which some merit is recognised by members of the international community . |
| 3 | The second day , and some of the third , belonged to Andrew Hudson , who drew strength from the eerie vacuum to become the first to score a century on Test debut for South Africa in 104 years . |
| 4 | ‘ The air is never of one self-colour only , but is often of two colours , with a little of the third . ’ |
| 5 | Some 97% of the equity-related bond issues were by Japanese companies ; the market reached a peak of $28 billion in the second quarter , easing back to $16 billion in each of the third and fourth . |
| 6 | The HyperCard is based on the above outline of document preparation systems , with tutorials corresponding to each of the third level of headings ( e.g. the computer industry , publishing industry , hardware , software ) . |
| 7 | This , in turn , should mean that Russia will receive foreign assistance equal to one-fifth of its national income in each of the third and fourth quarters . |
| 8 | Gold/silver medallions are awarded to candidates who gain First and Second Place worldwide , for each of the Third Level Group Diplomas . |
| 9 | In such situations the equation is not the same in the case of the confidant and that of the third party and accordingly the result may be different . |
| 10 | We understand that offence was caused by our slogan ‘ Strengthen the Christian Aid Poor ’ and that the general feeling was that poverty in UK/I is minimal in comparison to that of the Third World . |
| 11 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 12 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 13 | There is still time for much of the Third World to be held back from taking the same course . |
| 14 | Something on that scale , or beyond , will be needed if the lethal cocktail of growing populations and diminishing harvests is not to create further tragedy in much of the third world . |
| 15 | But although they had vanished by the late 1950s , together with beggars from most European stations , the importunate begging hand thrust through the window of the railway carriage remains common throughout much of the Third World . |
| 16 | Much of the third world was colonised then . |
| 17 | A study presented to the United Nations suggests that grain yields will fall by 10 to 15 per cent in much of the third world as a result of global warming . |
| 18 | Following Burmese patterns the lines were usually of four syllables with the rhyme coming back diagonally from the fourth word of the first line to the third of the second , the second of the third and the first of the last line . |
| 19 | What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century . |
| 20 | About two thirds of the Third World 's $1,000 billion debt was lent by around 550 of the world 's private banks from North America , Japan and Europe between the late 1960s and early 1980s . |
| 21 | Thirteenth of the third ninety two . |
| 22 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
| 23 | More 's the pity , he thought , given how many of the Third World 's leaders came from that educational background . |
| 24 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
| 25 | Most radio sets were tuned to French stations in what was France 's ‘ darkest hour ’ , and Britain 's ‘ finest ’ ( pace Churchill ) : families in the north and east emulated their government ( and most newspapers published in Paris ) and fled the advancing German armies ; in Bordeaux many of the Third Republican MPs prepared to vote ‘ full powers ’ to a hero of the Great War , the octogenarian , Marshal Petain . |
| 26 | This represents the most concentrated pattern of private land ownership in Europe and compares unfavourably with many of the Third World countries you touched on in your Land issue ( NI 177 ) . |
| 27 | Twenty-second of the third Tuesday then , when are we starting right , that was the second of the fourth . |
| 28 | The crucial factors for the creation of a third party right , as expressed by the majority of the Court , were the intention of the parties as stipulated in the agreement , and subsequent actions , including those of the third party . |
| 29 | High levels of unemployment during the 1980s , for example , mean that labour forces in the older industrialised societies are not necessarily so expensive relative to those of the Third World . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the circle under surveillance and delayed making arrests only because it wanted to demonstrate , by compiling the fullest possible dossier , that its investigative abilities were superior to those of the Third Department . |