Example sentences of "[verb] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was that they purported to benefit persons who at civil law could only be considered third parties . |
| 2 | A good win for Hindhead to secure third place in division one . |
| 3 | He had written an essay on ‘ Why I Am Proud to Be an American ’ , and he had won third prize . |
| 4 | Mr Nicoll of Management Services also won third prize for another desert scene in the LANDSCAPES section . |
| 5 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 6 | Though the Lancia works driver lies third overall , with a repeat of his 1988 triumph at San Remo seeming beyond him when the event ends today , a place in the top three will secure his world crown two rallies before the end of the season . |
| 7 | Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru , McRae now lies third in the championship . |
| 8 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 9 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 10 | Louise Müller 's name occupied third place in the playbills . |
| 11 | still occupy third from bottom spot after they could only draw 0–0 one place above them . |
| 12 | To be sure , the modern West has turned into a corrupt and greedy Scrooge , with each affluent nation ever-reluctant to share its gross national product with a starving and emaciated Third World . |
| 13 | In Section 3.7 we regarded third normal form as the end of the normalisation process and this is usually satisfactory . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems Inc has reported third quarter net profits down 15.9% at $51.7m on turnover that rose 19.9% at $1,141.3m . |
| 15 | Systemix Inc has reported third quarter net profits of $2.2m against losses of $1.8m last time , on turnover that rose 503.8% at $4m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $13.7m , after $12.2m non-recurring charges , up from losses of $5.6m last time , on turnover that rose by 157.1% to $4.2m . |
| 16 | Software Spectrum Inc has reported third quarter net profits up 41.9% at $1.9m , on turnover up 37.8% at $60.3m ; net profit for the nine months was up 64.5% at $4.3m , on turnover that rose 39% to $159.7m . |
| 17 | National Semiconductor Corp has reported third quarter net profits up 85.5% at $26.9m on turnover up 22.3% at $491.5m ; net profit for the nine months was $84.1m against a loss last time of $147.6m after a $149.3m restructuring charge , on turnover up 18.7% at $1,445.8m . |
| 18 | Oracle Corp has reported third quarter net profits up 73.9% at $29.2m on turnover that rose 27.8% at $370.1m ; net profit for the nine months fell 11.0% at $29.1m after a $43.5m charge for the cumulative effect of the change in the method of recognising revenues , on turnover that rose 25.9% at $1,030m . |
| 19 | 3Com Corp has reported third quarter net profits of $10.2m against a loss last time of $4.4m , on turnover that rose 51.9% at $161.4m ; net profit for the nine months soared 1,100% to $25.3m on turnover up 50.8% at $449.7m ; net per share , $0.31 in the quarter , rose 1.030% to 0.79 in the nine months . |
| 20 | Printronix Inc has reported third quarter net profits of $603,000 up from $1.7m losses last time on sales up 9.0% at $23.8m ; nine month net losses were $3.2m , after a $1.0m charge , down from $7.2m losses last time on sales up 8.3% at $70.6m . |
| 21 | Automatic Data Processing Inc has reported third quarter net profit up 16.0% at $92.5m on turnover up 12.4% at $612.9m ; net profit for the nine months rose 15.4% at $214.5m on turnover that rose 14.3% at $1,626.7m ; net per share rose 14% to $0.65 in the quarter , 13% at $1.52 in the nine months . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp has reported third quarter net profits 35.7% ahead at $243.0m on turnover that rose 40.7% at $958.0m ; nine-month net profit rose 38.1% at $688.0m on turnover that rose 39.6% at $2,714m ; net earnings per share rose 33% to $0.80 in the quarter , 34% to $2.28 in the nine months . |
| 23 | Wellfleet Communications Inc has reported third quarter net profits up 109.9% at $7.6m against a period that included a $531,000 tax credit on turnover that soared 113% at $48.0m ; net for the nine months rose 80.4% at $18.5m against a period that included a $2.8m tax credit , on turnover that rose 111.0% at $120.9m ; net per share rose 118% to $0.24 in the quarter , 73% to $0.59 in the nine months . |
| 24 | AST Research Inc has reported third quarter net profits down 34% at $11.0m on turnover that soared 53.3% at $370.2m ; nine-month net profit fell 33.3% at $33.3m on turnover that climbed 84.6% at $1,002.9m ; net earnings per share fell 34% to $0.35 in the quarter , 33% to $1.05 in the nine months . |
| 25 | Sun Microsystems Inc has reported third quarter net profits down 15.9% at $51.7m on turnover that rose 19.9% at $1,141.3m ; net profit for the nine months slumped 40.6% at $80.6m on turnover that rose 16.5% at $3,048.1m ; net earnings per share fell 22% to $0.60 in the quarter , 42% to $0.77 in the nine months . |
| 26 | Quality Systems Inc has reported third quarter net profits of $94,300 against losses of $196,200 last time , on turnover up 3.9% at $2.8m ; net profit for the nine months stood at $208,000 against losses of $579,800 last time , on turnover that rose by 2.8% to $8.5m . |
| 27 | CACI International Inc has reported third quarter net profits up 4.9% at $1.1m , after $242,000 charges related to litigation , on turnover up 3.7% at $36.3m ; net profit for the nine months was down 35.8% at $2m , after 42.5m charges related to litigation , on turnover that rose 4.3% to $108.6m . |
| 28 | Perfectdata Corp has reported third quarter net profits down 40.4% at $102,000 , after $35,000 extraordinary credits this time and $53,000 last time , on turnover down 0.5% at $1.9m ; net profit for the nine months was down 26.1% at $342,000 , after $117,000 extraordinary credits this time and $150,000 last time , on turnover that rose 2.1% to $5.7m . |
| 29 | This is among the proposals contained in a consultative document issued by the Department of Trade and Industry to implement the cancellation provisions of the Second Life Assurance Directive and proposed Third Life Assurance Directive . |
| 30 | The new drum corps of McNeillstown scored their first success of the season by winning best drums with the band gaining third overall placing . |