Example sentences of "[prep] the last third " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've got to be more ruthless and more direct in the last third of the field . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet retirement is still viewed as the beginning of the end , rather than , for many , the threshold to the last third of life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there . |