Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 31 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 32 | But it is also because people in the Third World have realized that there are very few jobs available in which their children can use an education . |
| 33 | I disagree with your directive to ‘ pay up cheerfully ’ ( NI 185 ) when taking photographs of people in the Third World . |
| 34 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 35 | This has , undoubtedly , over the last few decades , brought many rural people in the Third World into the towns and cities , whether forced off their lands by hunger or predatory landlords , or as willing migrants in search of a better life . |
| 36 | The British insurance underwriting business at Eagle Star improved , although provisions on UK mortgage insurance were £29m in the third quarter . |
| 37 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 38 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 39 | The move changed the spirit of the centre ; it became less concerned with education and more concerned with French computer sales to the Third World . |
| 40 | Erm it does obviously have a bearing on sales to the third countries when the er aircraft is in production . |
| 41 | ICI announced pre-tax profits of £196m in the third quarter of 1991 , 22 per cent higher than in Q3 1990 . |
| 42 | The prizes at £75 for the winner , £50 for the runner-up and £25 for the third place . |
| 43 | Only in the first innings of the third Test in Bombay did England score more than 300 , while in the first two they were forced to follow on . |
| 44 | Amongst the survivors , mortality in the second year was about 50% and 27% in the third . |
| 45 | Oracle Intercontinental revenue grew 37% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 . |
| 46 | Oracle Intercontinental revenue grew 37% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 . |
| 47 | That will cost the Treasury £400m in the second year of the poll tax , £200m in the third , and £85m in the fourth . |
| 48 | Shares of Pennine Optical slipped 2p to 75p on the Third Market as the company paid £1.6m for A-Z Dental , a false teeth maker . |
| 49 | A starter regimen was used , with infusion of 60% of the calculated total caloric requirements on the first day ; this was progressively increased to 100% by the third day . |
| 50 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 51 | With people watching how the X terminals business is going , Network Computing Devices last week reported record net revenues of $32.5m in the third quarter ended September 30 , up 115% , giving a net income of $2.2m , up 386% . |
| 52 | It should get on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 53 | It should be up on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 54 | KEN RUTHERFORD hit an unbeaten 53 to steer New Zealand to a five-wicket victory and a share of the series in the third Test against Australia in Auckland yesterday . |