Example sentences of "about the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote . |
| 2 | It did n't work , and by about the third instalment the outcry was such that we abandoned it . |
| 3 | These are lectures that are pitched directly at their level erm with the knowledge that they have round about the third year in schools , so that they can see some of the problems that physics tackles . |
| 4 | ‘ What about the third girl ? ’ he asked first . |
| 5 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 6 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 7 | Robin was for consulting the trainer friend about the third race , but I felt this was tempting Providence too far . |
| 8 | The trust aims to relieve poverty and distress in the third world , educate the public about the third world , and promote research into finding solutions to third world problems . |
| 9 | Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World . |
| 10 | Education about the Third World which does not refer to the socio-economic problems of rural Europe can promote a belief that European development has worked and that failure lives elsewhere in the world , or that there is no relationship between the problems of European DRAs and those of the predominantly rural Third World countries . |
| 11 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 12 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
| 13 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |
| 14 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 15 | In school A from about the third form ( as the headmaster pointed out ) black pupils became aware of negative attitudes they felt that the school held towards them . |
| 16 | the hotel then you come to the shops , on the left hand side about the third shop along |
| 17 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 18 | About the third time we went to the beach ( I took them to the one known since 1945 as ‘ Staging Post B ’ ) , as soon as I rejoined the group I realised she 'd told them . |
| 19 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 20 | What about the third agency then ? |
| 21 | But they are less enthusiastic about the third thing the Europeans want to do . |