Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 2 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 3 | She began to undo the third shirt . |
| 4 | O'Rourke appeared in court on Sept. 17 and pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds which carried a possible prison sentence of up to one year ; under the terms of a plea bargain arrangement , the federal prosecutors agreed to drop the third and more serious felony charge . |
| 5 | Hence , when a large majority of the delegates at the Tours Congress voted to join the Third International , against the advice of their leader , Léon Blum , the political heir of Jaurès , Nguyen Ai Quoc was among them . |
| 6 | In September 1947 Britain 's foreign secretary , Ernest Bevin , and France 's premier , Paul Ramadier , talked of uniting their colonial empires together , and socialist politicians including British premier Clement Attlee hoped to give the third force an ideological dimension : against American capitalism and Soviet communism , Europe would stand as the champion of democratic socialism , combining liberal political rights with radical social reform . |