Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
| 2 | 6.2 Why in Britain , not in the Third World ? |
| 3 | The voters were by then more hostile to Mrs Thatcher and her government , but they were switching their support to Labour , not to the third parties . |
| 4 | But not by the third time . |
| 5 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |