Example sentences of "was [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 It was after the third year of struggle that we decided to go militant .
2 No there was a vision and I think the , the Apostle had was of the third heaven
3 That was in the third minute and , four minutes later , Steele landed a second penalty goal when Leicester erred at a line-out .
4 The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September .
5 It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while .
6 She was in the third of its twenty-odd rows of wooden seating .
7 Owers only cup appearance was in the third round win over Port Vale .
8 The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market .
9 She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park .
10 Sixty-one was on the third floor .
11 It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place .
12 Her flat was on the third floor with its windows looking towards the river .
13 The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came .
14 Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking .
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