Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj -est] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BIRKENHEAD apprentice car technician has been named as the best third year trainee by the Shell-owned nation-wide motoring centre chain , Superdrive . |
| 2 | It would superficially seem reasonable to accept 7.45 , but it should be noted that more of the highest third of pupils placed " pm " after the clock time than did pupils in other bands . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Some questions in the tests were answered correctly by a substantial proportion of pupils in the lowest third . |
| 6 | The data reveal that most of the questions and tasks successfully undertaken by pupils in the lowest third of the target pupils involve basic processes of counting and calculation carried out on paper , mentally , and with a calculator ; direct readings from tables of data ; recognition and drawing of familiar shapes ; and some visualization tasks . |
| 7 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | By contrast 85 per cent of the pupils were said by their teachers to have no experience of Example 14 , although it produced one of the highest success rates among the lowest third . |
| 11 | As the table shows , only those involving multiplication of a whole number by ten yielded a reasonable level of performance among the lowest third of the pupils . |
| 12 | Across the furthest third of the room , hanging from a thick wire , was a pair of faded curtains which reached to the ground . |