Example sentences of "and [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 32 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 33 | He stated a little later , ‘ At the start it was patriotism not communism which moved me to believe in Lenin and in the Third International . ’ |
| 34 | In the first clutches nearly all the capsules appeared to contain developing embryos , in the second only 10% and in the third , none at all ( Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 35 | The remainder of the analysis in this section , and in the third section of chapter 6 , rests on work initiated by Marshall ( 1985 ) and reported in Marshall and Tomkins ( 1988 ) . |
| 36 | ‘ In the first year we were frightened of him , in the second year we got used to him , and in the third year we really liked him . ’ |
| 37 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 38 | The Committee participated in the publication by the BPF of a new Form of Collateral warranty for purchasers and tenants and in the third edition of the form for funders . |
| 39 | But Japan has also begun to play a major foreign policy role , gaining great influence in the UN , the World Bank — and in the Third World , by virtue of its being the largest aid-giver . |
| 40 | The number of cars will grow from 400 million today to 700 million by 2010 , and in the Third World alone 16.6 billion tonnes of carbon will be emitted annually by 2025 . |
| 41 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 42 | Adjectives occurring postnominally with characteristic value are perhaps less frequently encountered , but they are still by no means uncommon ; we have already queried Bolinger 's view of the only river navigable ; and in the third example from ( 17 ) , it could hardly be claimed that the buildings were only adjacent on some particular occasion . |
| 43 | Second year fieldwork includes participation in a ten-year study of socio-economic change in Edinburgh , and in the third year , there is a foreign fieldcourse , which currently offers a choice of venue : Iceland or Alsace . |
| 44 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
| 45 | in the premier league Swindon Town won their second point of the season at West Ham and in the third division there was a one-all draw for Hereford against Northampton at Edgar Street |
| 46 | In the second set of instructions , take the one pair and perm it with the two highest scoring selections in each of the three trios and in the third section , perm a straight 8 from 9 among your second column trio matches . |
| 47 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 48 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 49 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 50 | I can control the crust easily now , and on the third cast the water erupts as a nice chub takes the bait . |
| 51 | They travelled for days and on the third entered the Lauderdale valley . |
| 52 | ‘ Go and tell that fox : ‘ I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow , and on the third day I shall finish my work ! ’ |
| 53 | The second day was clearer , and on the third the sun shone . |
| 54 | ‘ And on the third date , she told us , he took her back to his surgery in Harley Street — and raped her . |
| 55 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 56 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |
| 57 | And on the third day , some men who thought this to be a favourable sign went forth to water the bumpouses and to bring them to their maturity and wholesomeness . |
| 58 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 59 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 60 | Council now meets three times a year on the 2nd Saturday in March , the fourth Saturday in June ( on the same day as our AGM ) and on the third Saturday in November . |