Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] only the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Littlejohn of The Sun became only the second winner of the Irritant of the Year award since Private Eye won in 1968 . |
| 2 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 3 | PROFESSOR David Wilkie last night became only the fourth person to receive a gold medal from the Faculty of Actuaries in its 137-year existence for his contribution to the development of actuarial science . |
| 4 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 5 | The deletion detected by the 1,412-bp probe includes only the last exon of the P gene ( Fig. 3 a , and unpublished data ) . |
| 6 | The Great Britain scrum-half became only the fourth player in history to score ten tries in a match — equalling team-mate Martin Offiah 's club record set against Leeds in the Premiership semi-final last May . |
| 7 | COLCHESTER 'S quest to become only the second club to complete the non-League double continues today , with a 6,000-plus crowd expected at Layer Road for the Vauxhall FA Trophy semi-final clash with Macclesfield . |