Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] fifth " in BNC.
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1 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
2 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
3 | In the mornings we were let off the chains , four of us in pairs and then the fifth and last man on his own , to use the bathroom and to exercise for maybe half an hour . |
4 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
5 | … and Lexandro heard of such incidents of the campaign as the Battle of the Glass Bell Temple , and of the Sixty Suicide Skaters who had swooped on Brothers of the Fourth Company clutching melta-bombs , and how the Fifth and Seventh and Eighth Companies had found themselves confronted , to their astonishment , by Titans … |
6 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
7 | About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance . |
8 | There were few electricity disconnections , not surprising since heat and hot water were provided by gas , but nearly a fifth of the households surveyed had had their gas cut off . |
9 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |