Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 2 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 3 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 4 | Under these conditions the human observer sees a chevron , made up of two of the gratings , moving against a background made up of the third . |
| 5 | Taking his cue from the Egyptians , Mr Ra came up with a third : Mummification ( with a capital ‘ M ’ because Summum , besides patenting the process , has somehow registered the word as a trademark ) . |
| 6 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 7 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 8 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 9 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
| 10 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
| 11 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 12 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |
| 13 | That was the unspoken alternative ( or at least unspoken by all except the red crow , who cheerily brought the subject up on every third or fourth visit ) , that was the easy way out . |
| 14 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 15 | They found the room in the deserted area , up on the third floor . |
| 16 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 17 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 18 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 19 | Railcard holders will be able to get further reductions of up to a third : children pay a flat fare of £1 single . |
| 20 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 21 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 22 | In April , partly in response to Dell 's campaign , Compaq cut its prices by up to a third . |
| 23 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , foreign ministers of the four ‘ nuclear ’ republics — Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and Kazakhstan — failed after a day of talks to agree on a formula for ratifying the 1991 US-Soviet START agreement that would cut strategic nuclear arsenals by up to a third . |
| 25 | The Cancer Research Campaign said yesterday that if a trial , to begin next year , is successful , up to a third of 15,000 victims a year could be saved . |
| 26 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
| 27 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |
| 28 | With prices down by up to a third in some areas , there are many bargains around for the discerning buyer whether you fancy a converted barn or like the challenge of renovating . |
| 29 | Those who smoke could be cutting their fertility by up to a third . |
| 30 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |