Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] third " in BNC.
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1 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
2 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
3 | Failure to get up into the full climb is the usual cause of serious overspeeding during the first third of the launch . |
4 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
5 | Taking the evidence from those areas where industrial employment was expanding , Professor Malcolmson has accepted that they " unquestionably experienced a general increase in real wages " during the last third of the eighteenth century , and qualify the generally unhappy standard of living experience over the rest of the country . |
6 | For those prisoners who co-operate , the regime is semi-open after the first third of their sentence . |
7 | The wide range of novels typical of the first third of the twentieth century is perhaps unexpected and almost all the best sellers are there . |
8 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
9 | The summary X value is the median X in each third ; in the first third of the data , the summary X value is 109.5 , the value for the other South East . |
10 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
11 | ‘ We 've got to be more ruthless and more direct in the last third of the field . ’ |
12 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
13 | Lithuania 's cause was helped by some ropey Northern Ireland defending , and several occasions when the midfield dropped back too far , causing a traffic-jam in the last third of the pitch . |
14 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
15 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
16 | At this stage Cliftonville had shown little menace in the last third of the pitch , but they rocked the Blues by taking the lead two minutes before half-time . |
17 | Yet retirement is still viewed as the beginning of the end , rather than , for many , the threshold to the last third of life . |
18 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
19 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
20 | Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there . |