Example sentences of "than the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Business Monitor recorded seven per cent fewer account change announcements in the fourth quarter , equivalent to 14 per cent less billing than the third quarter . |
| 2 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , there you — ’ one of them began , before he took in the fact that it was a stranger standing in front of him , rather than the third scientist . |
| 4 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 5 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 6 | Why is it that no movement of spiritual renewal has ever lasted longer than the third generation ? |
| 7 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 8 | Those of course would have to qualify according to the rules of technical assistance and British aid , but in principle the study seminars are certainly open and we normally have people from countries other than the Third World ones . |