Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further questions which yielded a success rate of less than 50 per cent for the middle third of the pupils are now considered . |
| 2 | The question below produced the lowest success rate for the bottom third . |
| 3 | By contrast , answering some questions about intervals between dates is much more difficult for the bottom third when no calendar is provided than when it is ; the top third are about as successful whether or not a calendar is provided . |
| 4 | A new Constitution for the future Third Republic was promulgated and the ban on political parties was lifted in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] . |
| 5 | Nearly all the items answered correctly by 40 per cent or more of the bottom third pupils require straightforward counting or calculation . |
| 6 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
| 7 | For three of the shapes the appropriate name was provided by around three-quarters of the bottom third pupils and by nearly all the top third . |
| 8 | S.J. Snooke of South Africa , who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday , Feb. 1 , 1910 , was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval , but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins , whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925 , which Australia eventually won by 11 runs . |
| 9 | The proportion of the bottom two-thirds of pupils who get the following item correct is considerably reduced compared with the number who correctly answer " How many halves are there in 2½ ? " ( see p.33 ) Reading a scale with divisions which do not represent one unit again proves difficult as the next item illustrates : The next question which fewer than 50 per cent of the middle third could answer was the last in this group of three items . |
| 10 | The success rates were similar for both questions ; 45–50 per cent of the lower third band , 70–75 per cent of the middle third , and 80–85 per cent of the top third pupils giving both relevant months in each case . |
| 11 | This is located in the midline of the posterior third of the embryonic region and defines the future anteroposterior axis of the fetus . |
| 12 | LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL Third of our four-part report on Tricon Foodservice Consultants ' advice to the ailing Valley Hotel , Ironbridge , Shropshire |
| 13 | Record inflation would not reproduce the panic of the Weimar Republic in the twenties , nor the ‘ winter of discontent ’ the pre-Vichy , neo-fascist despair of the French Third Republic in the later thirties . |
| 14 | For someone of Nizan 's background , not being a loser in the educational system of the French Third Republic necessitated the annihilation of his own class origins . |
| 15 | Thus it might be established that the progressive — ing has a high accuracy rating and the past tense morpheme — ed a low one , that the plural morpheme — s rates high on this accuracy measure as compared with the singular third person morpheme — s , and so on . |
| 16 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 17 | This is Whitlow play getting congested into the middle third of the field at the moment . |
| 18 | The age standardised prevalence of microalbuminuria ( defined as albumin excretion rate 20–200 µg/min ) by thirds of height in the European men was 4.3% in the lowest third , 4.6% in the middle third , and 2.5% in the highest third ( NS ) . |
| 19 | In the south Asian men the age standardised prevalence of microalbuminuria was 4.6% in the lowest third of height , 4.9% in the middle third , and 4.6% in the highest third ( NS ) . |
| 20 | As Eversley ( 1989 ) has recently shown , while only 2 per cent of Roman catholics hold managerial and professional positions compared with 4 per cent of protestants , they are over-represented in the bottom third of the Northern class structure , but generally within the framework of a traditional dual protestant — catholic labour market . |
| 21 | ( iv ) Close the chambers with a second coverslip and stack them in a 50 ml polycarbonate centrifuge tube with a hole drilled through its base and a Perspex plunger inserted in the bottom third of the tube . |
| 22 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 23 | Over half the pupils in the bottom third gave the correct answer to that question and a fair proportion did so on two visualization questions in other tests . |
| 24 | Again marketing budget at two , six , seven , the point made there again , numbered item one in the bottom third no national advertising and then two sixty eight , this is a meeting of the twenty fifth of February nineteen eighty eight , present including Mr and yourself today I send that 's Mr pointed out that so far our reaction to the recent media criticism had been totally defensive in future these actions to be defended , but then attacked in order to regain our credibility were you indeed present at that meeting of the twenty fifth of erm February ? |
| 25 | There are only two such girls in the present third year . |
| 26 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 27 | In the countryside , the new class of yeoman farmers would provide a mass base for liberal democracy comparable to that in the French Third Republic , while the growing legions of the so-called ‘ third element ’ working for the zemstvos — doctors , teachers , midwives , agricultural experts , and the like — provided a natural constituency for liberal reformism . |
| 28 | In the first class compartments the seating was two a side and in the brake third three a side . |
| 29 | Subsequently Wernicke ( 1874 ) drew attention to defects in the comprehension of language following damage to the posterior third of the superior temporal gyrus on the left side , now referred to as Wernicke 's area . |
| 30 | The final twenty minutes saw play confined to the middle third of the pitch as both linesmen became rather flag happy with a succession of offside decisions which infuriated players and crowd alike . |