Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] today " in BNC.

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1 Connors faces old foe Ivan Lendl in the second round today .
2 Ulster Unionist talks negotiator Chris McGimpsey won his City Council debut on the second count today in Court area .
3 Well , I do n't know if Marlborough tobacco was around in the time of Jesus Christ , but erm I think if Jesus Christ had the second coming today one of the first things he would condemn is this week that is the cause of death and destruction throughout the world , and if he would n't condemn that I would certainly be a bit dismayed .
4 Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place .
5 Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs .
6 A DIVORCED couple married for the second time today … 53 years after their first wedding .
7 That 's the second time today I have n't remembered my
8 The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today .
9 One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run .
10 No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble .
11 Here is the music for the first time today .
12 Through this lucrative arrangement the club will receive £500 over the next ten years and the donation of a new team strip , on show for the first time today .
13 A new name soon to be engraved in the swindon town hall of fame is centre-half Adrian Whitbread … a five hundred thousand pound signing from Orient Adrian was on the County Ground pitch for the first time today to line-up with his new team mates for the annual pre season picture … and as you 'd expect it was all smiles
14 In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates .
15 Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today .
16 Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times .
17 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
18 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
19 He 's on the first team today .
20 You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire .
21 There are millions of people in the Third World today who would gladly exchange their lifestyles for a dose of materialistic and scientific modernity .
22 In our economy , where we are so familiar with money , it is difficult for us to envisage any other ways in which goods can be acquired , but in the past all sorts of mechanisms were employed and the same is true in the Third World today .
23 But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February .
24 We need to find the next depot today , Oates wrote .
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