Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Piero Fornasetti , a Milanese whose contribution to the decorative arts in the Twentieth Century has been described as visionary , trained as a painter and sculptor .
2 ‘ Towards the Millennium ’ is the city 's own annual festival celebrating the arts in the twentieth century .
3 Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years .
4 Patience rewarded Nowhere are Yorkshire 's technical shortcomings more recognisable than with Sharp , recalled after three centuries in the second team .
5 David Boon scored centuries in the third , fourth and fifth Tests , on his way to a series aggregate of 556 runs at an average of 79.43
6 The record-breaking Wolves ' hitman had a 20 yard screamer touched over the bar in the first minute , shot against the keeper 's legs in the 24th , was again denied by Bolder in the 76th and fired into the side netting six minutes from the end .
7 The result of the vote is at least a hopeful sign that sexist dinosaurs are on their last legs in the 20th Century .
8 From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter .
9 In their second report ( the statistical methods in the first were flawed ) they compared prevalence and consumption in two groups of countries : ( 1 ) those with total health-inspired bans on advertising or else tobacco promotion in only a few media , and ( 2 ) those with promotion in most or all media .
10 With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge .
11 Many course combinations in the first two years provide a background for Medical Microbiology in third and fourth years .
12 The drivers of cars with an interior temperature of 27C missed 50 per cent more signals in the first half-hour than those with cars at 21C .
13 COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second .
14 Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half .
15 YORK City goalkeeper Chris Marples and midfield Shaun Reid , two of the club 's mainstays in the last two seasons , are likely to have played their last games for the club .
16 And I 'm almost having to bully kids in the fifth year at present into getting hold of the Echo at night and writing off to jobs because they believe they are of no value .
17 The interviewer knows a secret and naturally imparts it to his million or so readers in the next issue .
18 It has meant that she has only had two training sessions in the last month , which is scarcely the preparation necessary to face her hardest opponent in the world .
19 The vast number of self-instituted independent organizations in the nineteenth century , and into the twentieth century , can in many cases be directly related to two related factors : the development of the teaching academy , with its tendency to prescribe rules ; and the greatly increased importance of the exhibition , within the market conditions which had succeeded patronage .
20 In some ways organizations in the Third World like Gabriela in the Phillipines and SEWA in India , seem further along the road than we are here .
21 Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations .
22 When examining Barbarossa as a legendary character , this image appears again , from a traditional source collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century .
23 The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known .
24 Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII .
25 There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system .
26 Commentators noted that some of the unsuccessful presidential candidates in the first round were likely to lend support to Ratsiraka in the second round , due to take place in January .
27 National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round .
28 These Background Notes may be given to Tutors and Candidates in the Second Certificate for Legal Secretaries Examination on or after Friday 27 April 1990 .
29 The Socialists have been unable to clinch a similar deal with the Greens but they have now announced that they will unilaterally pull out their candidates in favour of better placed Green candidates in the second round .
30 Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ?
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