Example sentences of "[num ord] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the STV they do not , for some voters are allowed the effective use of votes of second or lower preference and some are not . |
| 2 | The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts . |
| 3 | In 1989 , 6% of children were born to women in their second or later marriage . |
| 4 | Since the early 1970s , the proportion of divorces involving a second or later marriage for one partner more than doubled , from 7% in 1971 to 16% in 1989 . |
| 5 | Sixth — It is contemplated that during the period of the loan , discussions take place to explore the possibility of achieving a longer term solution , either by way of transferring ownership of some or all of the paintings to the Foundation or extending the loan for a second or further term if the initial lease arrangement works well for all concerned . |
| 6 | According to another report that was based upon essentially the same data , the spacing of second and higher order births at least two years apart would reduce infant mortality by 10 per cent and the death rate of children aged 1–4 years by 21 per cent . |
| 7 | The second and wider intention was to start investigating some of the basic research issues . |
| 8 | In the film 's most inventive touch , Hook tries to avenge himself on Peter Pan by becoming a second and better father . |
| 9 | Although the exhibition covers all periods of Nicholson 's career and includes such historic material as ‘ Crowned head : the Queen ’ ( 1932 , Abbot Hall Art Gallery ) , ‘ Coin and Musical Instruments ’ ( 1933 , Richard Zeisler collection ) , and ‘ April 1950 : Still-life Abelard and Eloise ’ ( Musee des Beaux-Arts , Ottawa ) , it is particularly strong in the larger , later works which the artist created during his second and longer residency in Switzerland ( 1958–71 ) . |
| 10 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 11 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 12 | ‘ To the end that you may make a second and happier marriage from your father 's house — is that so ? ’ |
| 13 | Direct observations on what people are expecting allow a second and stronger test of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 14 | The second and stronger tendency is a conservative nationalism that views the communist era as a Soviet-imposed interruption of a national democratic tradition that had flourished before the second world war . |
| 15 | The brewhouse has an eight-barrel mash tun , a second and larger tun bought from Peter Austin , founder of the Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire , which is used for Bob 's main seller , the 1035° bitter , and two fermenters . |
| 16 | Low birth weight appears to be comparatively most widespread among the babies of young teenagers ; for example , 31 per cent of babies born to United States girls who had a second birth before reaching age 15 and 20 per cent of those born to 15–19 year old women having a fourth or higher order birth ( Omran , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | In Europe , incidence of anaemia among women amounted to one per cent of those at zero parity and two per cent of those having their fourth or higher order child . |
| 18 | Taking into account the influence of a number of factors that affect levels of child mortality , including maternal age , one study demonstrated with results of data from developing countries that participated in the WFS , that elimination of fourth and higher order births ( i.e. , termination of childbearing at third parity ) would reduce infant and early childhood mortality by approximately eight per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.29 ) . |
| 19 | A cross national analysis of data on women in Maternity Care Monitoring Programmes determined that anaemia was twice as prevalent among women of fourth and higher order as among those with three or fewer children . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that , in developing countries , elimination of fifth and higher order births alone would effect a maternal mortality reduction of four per cent , while elimination of fourth and higher order births along with the confinement of reproduction to ages 20–34 would reduce infant mortality by 12 per cent , other things being equal . |
| 21 | Of the two determinants , maternal age appears to have the stronger influence , although the deleterious effect of fourth and higher birth order seems to be very strong at young maternal ages . |
| 22 | In some cases , abortion rates are very high at sixth and higher order pregnancies , ranging from one quarter to one half of all pregnancies . |
| 23 | You should have a first or higher degree , be able to demonstrate significant achievement in research and the potential to contribute further in this area . |
| 24 | Moreover the potential of all votes , whether of first or lower preference , varies between constituencies , because these differ considerably in magnitude ( a term that usefully serves to denote the size of a constituency 's electorate as distinct from the area it covers ) . |
| 25 | Ratios of still births to live births tend to be larger at high orders than at second order but , in developed countries , particularly , the ratios at sixth , but mainly seventh and higher birth orders were two to three times that among first order births . |
| 26 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that , in developing countries , elimination of fifth and higher order births alone would effect a maternal mortality reduction of four per cent , while elimination of fourth and higher order births along with the confinement of reproduction to ages 20–34 would reduce infant mortality by 12 per cent , other things being equal . |
| 28 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 29 | So the miners found copper first and later tin . |
| 30 | Arguably , one casualty , the Liberal Party , was to be fatally wounded in the next and Greater conflict . |