Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter .
2 It was , said Alton Community Centre manager Jan Nicholas , ‘ a truly magical evening ’ — and one which will have raised over £1,500 towards the third and final stage of Triangle — the teenager 's coffee bar .
3 IBM , which markets the Stratus line as its System/88 series , says sales of the boxes dipped by 56% in the third quarter , and accounted for just 7% of Stratus ' revenues for the same quarter .
4 But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months .
5 Data from the Third World suggests that it may be dubious : mortality is only a good indicator of the overall health of a population when infectious diseases are a major problem ( US National Center for Health Statistics 1973 ) .
6 Plans for an Indo-Russian venture to manufacture and export tanks and aircraft to the Third World , anticipated during a recent visit by the Russian State Secretary Gennady Burbulis [ see p. 38914 ] , were confirmed on June 16 by Russia 's ambassador to India , Anatoly Drukov .
7 Pfizer reported net profits of $274.7m for the third quarter of 1991 , 13 per cent higher than in the same period in 1990 .
8 Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third .
9 Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " .
10 In the fourth quarter of 1991 the amount of new consumer credit advanced was £11.82bn compared with £12.07bn in the third quarter — a fall of 2 peer cent .
11 Alpha Microsystems Inc is anticipating a mild comeback figuring it 'll have a profit between $190,000 and $250,000 for the third quarter ended November 28 on revenues between $10.5m and $11m .
12 CompUSA Inc says that March same-store sales rose 18.3% , and its same-store sales for the quarter rose 19.7% ; sales for the third quarter ended March 27 increased by 68.2% to $365m , the retailer added .
13 The Christian and the caring humanist can not remain unconcerned for the plight of the people of the Third World who live so close to starvation .
14 LOGO and the languages which follow could allow people of the Third World to recover control of their cultural and educational development for the first time since elite education began to be Europeanised last century .
15 For the rural people of the Third World time is short .
16 Jackson proposed that the majority of human life , the people of the Third World , be accorded proportionate political respect , economic aid , and inventive consideration as potential social and economic partners .
17 That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty .
18 Managing director Chris Dawes claims that MicroMuse can supply around 70% of the third party software products available on the market that work with SunNet Manager and can integrate all types of kit using its own resources or those of its 15 value-added integrators and six networking partners .
19 Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities .
20 Three out of five people in the Third World have no easy access to clean water .
21 0nly one in four people in the Third World has any kind of sanitation system .
22 Meanwhile , the rural housing problem , which affects most people in the Third World , is so immense that no government has even tried to tackle it on a national scale .
23 IT is obscene that TV Gladiator Hawk eats more than £120 worth of food every week when people in the Third World are dying of starvation .
24 There are millions of people in the Third World today who would gladly exchange their lifestyles for a dose of materialistic and scientific modernity .
25 ‘ Young people in the Third World are being told it 's wonderful to smoke and they do n't know the problems it 's causing . ’
26 Intermediate Technology enables poor people in the Third World to develop and use technologies and methods which give them more control over their lives and which contribute to the long-term development of their communities .
27 It will be a stagnating world in which the cost of military adventures and private consumption bear most heavily on people in The Third World via high interest rates , high oil prices and the foregone peace dividend .
28 In the following chapters in this book there are many illustrations of how adult educators have attempted to take up this challenge working with women , peace groups , the unemployed , ecology groups , trade unions , cooperatives , people in the Third World .
29 The British Executive Service Overseas ( BESO ) is looking for volunteers with skills to work overseas , training people in the Third World , particularly chefs .
30 Led by USAID , they argued that people in the Third World were poor because they were having too many children .
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