Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 2 | The Hong Kong government guesses that what would follow is a fall of 5–7% in the colony 's total trade , and of a third in its rate of GDP growth . |
| 3 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 4 | He returned the following year to complete the qualifications for a First in English and a Second in Greek . |
| 5 | He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ . |
| 6 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 7 | Their rates of economic activity over recent years have followed the male pattern of rapid decline in the 60–4 age group ( from a third in 1973 to less than a fifth in 1988 ) with a similar decline in , the 55–9 age group ( 60 per cent to 48 per cent ) . |
| 8 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 9 | With prices down by up to a third in some areas , there are many bargains around for the discerning buyer whether you fancy a converted barn or like the challenge of renovating . |
| 10 | The cost of an item shall be its cost of material ( excluding VAT ) on a First In First Out ( ‘ FIFO ’ ) basis plus attributable direct labour plus an amount to cover an appropriate proportion of related production overhead expenses , based on the normal level of activity . |
| 11 | Plus a first in a specialty event . |
| 12 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 13 | As a result it has seen sales climb by a third in the first four months of this year . |
| 14 | There are steeply progressive income taxes ( up by a third in 1990-91 ) , as well as property taxes that blatantly bleed companies to subsidise home-owners . |
| 15 | If we take a 10-year view , we see that manufacturing investment is up by a third in comparison with a similar part of the same cycle . |
| 16 | In an earlier dispute 8,000 diamond miners belonging to the NUM had cut diamond production by the De Beers mining company by a third in mid-October 1989 in support of a demand for a 26.6 per cent wage increase . |
| 17 | Working groups hope to reduce all road casualties by a third in the region by 2000 . |