Example sentences of "away [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half . |
| 2 | The girl 's slim figure , small breasts , and pony tail haircut are those of an adolescent , while her pose , one foot at right angles to the other , is just a little away from the third position in classical Western ballet . |
| 3 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 4 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 5 | But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days |