Example sentences of "third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milne was in form at third for the winners and Cannon played some superb shots as well . |
| 2 | third of the stories in the ‘ Tales ’ section of the collected edition of Sketches by Boz . |
| 3 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 4 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 5 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 6 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) Where a district or islands area is divided into licensing divisions , then unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs , not less than one third of the members of the licensing board for a licensing division shall be councillors for a ward or electoral division within the area of the licensing division . |
| 8 | Isobel Mitchell , one of the organisers of a petition signed by a third of the islands ' adults calling for an open inquiry to be held by a sheriff , said the secrecy was astonishing . |
| 9 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 10 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 11 | For a third of the women these hardships were temporarily alleviated when they obtained new paid employment . |
| 12 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 13 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 14 | In the two years 1979-81 , one third of the firms in my constituency closed . |
| 15 | Elections take place for a third of the councillors in each year that there is not a county council election . |
| 16 | It means that one third of the councillors are elected in each of three consecutive years . |
| 17 | One third of the councillors in each of three consecutive years are up for re-election . |
| 18 | But they could n't do that because only one third of the councillors were up for election . |
| 19 | In Wiltshire , nearly a third of the councillors are elected by voters in the Thamesdown borough area covering Swindon . |
| 20 | Precisely how many were ejected in 1662 is unknown but possibly a third of the ministers became ‘ Nonconformists ’ or ‘ Dissenters ’ . |
| 21 | third of the sketches in the ‘ Scenes ’ section of Sketches by Boz . |
| 22 | In all , about a third of the companies listed on Osaka 's stockmarket have shifted . |
| 23 | An early study of the Camberwell Reception Centre ( now closed ) found that one third of the residents were suffering from a severe psychiatric disorder , excluding alcoholism . |
| 24 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 25 | By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred . |
| 26 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 27 | Already , the trade provides about a third of the earnings of local fishermen . |
| 28 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 29 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
| 30 | One third of the failures are caused by the development of an afunctional gall bladder which precludes the dissolution of the remaining small fragments . |