Example sentences of "[num ord] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pyramid Technology Corp has penned October 15th as the day it plans to make a ‘ significant ’ announcement of new hardware and software : one of the two next-generation MIPS R4000-based systems already promised ( UX No 393 ) , will likely figure . |
| 2 | The software was later changed to exclude the lefthand sixteenth of the viewfield from the measurements . |
| 3 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 4 | It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month . |
| 5 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 6 | It has also been suggested that the dumping of small quantities of limestone in affected lakes — a measure being pursued in Sweden — could be a solution to the problem involving less than one hundredth of the cost of desulphurization at source . |
| 7 | it 's what , it 's about ninety nine hundredth of the way . |
| 8 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 9 | If we add up the masses of all the stars that we can see in our galaxy and other galaxies , the total is less than one hundredth of the amount required to halt the expansion of the universe , even for the lowest estimate of the rate of expansion . |
| 10 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 11 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 12 | Cyberscience says that reports can often be produced in a hundredth of the time that it takes with Cobol . |
| 13 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 14 | The veto was the 31st of the Bush presidency , all of which had been upheld . |
| 15 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 16 | International studies confirm Crossman 's criticism : they place Britain no higher than sixteenth in the league table of countries which most enjoy freedom to publish . |
| 17 | The former cocaine user , who slumped from fourth to 59th in the world , now lives in his native Canada . |
| 18 | Goal of the week ; the 17th of the season for hit man , Craig Maskell . |
| 19 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 20 | Send to What 's Brewing , CAMRA , 34 Alma Road , St Albans , Herts , AL1 3BW to arrive not later than the 15th of the month . |
| 21 | The prices are usually collected on the Tuesday closest to the 15th of the month and the index is published in the third week of the following month in various economic journals . |
| 22 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 23 | Romero became El Salvador 's uncanonized martyr and his funeral was attended by 80,000 mourners , someone-fifth of the country 's resident population . |
| 24 | To be eligible to win either of these guitars you ( or a representative ) must be available to attend the show on Sunday 29th for the presentation , but you were going to be there anyway , were n't you ? |
| 25 | The lowlands thus required two sources of income for drainage : one to maintain the main river system , and the second for the back ditches . |
| 26 | As with sign language research , Scandinavia and the USA have been in the forefront of developments , though each draws on different traditions , the first for the recognition of language difference needs , the second for the equalisation of society and integration of minority groups . |
| 27 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 28 | The first element can be referred to as the subject , the second as the content . |
| 29 | The American , who had been lying second after the morning 's compulsory figures , was placed first by all nine judges for both technical merit and presentation . |
| 30 | A horse called Metronome and a rider called Pippa Nolan set the pace over the cross country course at Blenheim on Saturday … second after the dressage they pushed into the lead … a re-run of last year when Pippa went and lost it on the showjumping … this year the field was even tougher |