Example sentences of "[noun] for the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
| 2 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 3 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 4 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
| 5 | CHILD star Macauley Culkin 's Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York has topped US box office takings for the third week in a row , earning Pounds 8 million . |
| 6 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 7 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 8 | VAUXHALL has won a top towcar award for the third year running , scooping five of the seven trophies in the process . |
| 9 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten yesterday won the European Footballer of the Year award for the third time . |
| 10 | Two goals from Wayne Biggins kept Stoke on course for the Third Division title with a 3–0 home win over Darlington . |
| 11 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 12 | The cuts are despite what it says will be record turnover and unit shipments for the third quarter just ended , and operating profits for the quarter ‘ comfortably above ’ 1992 third quarter levels . |
| 13 | It was rebuilt in the 19th century as an extravagant and idealized vision of the Middle Ages for the third Marquis of the Bute by the architect William Burges . |
| 14 | When the Foreign Secretary visits the Group of Seven summit in the summer , will he bang some heads together to try to bring forward a new deal for the third world ? |
| 15 | It is in this context that the Conservative party presented its new programme for the third term , following the Queen 's speech ; a set of policies lent a coherence by the inner city problem : |
| 16 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 17 | Churt hit five goals for the third week running in the Surrey Intermediate Premier Division Two . |
| 18 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 19 | They spoke as US gunships pounded a Somali warlord 's stronghold in Mogadishu for the third day running , killing at least one person , and attack helicopters searched out and blasted heavy weapons . |
| 20 | P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES ( Portsmouth ) are acting as Principal Sponsor of the Chichester Festivities for the third year running . |
| 21 | Takenhall proved the annual star turn , winning the Quintin Gilbey Trophy for the third year running . |
| 22 | Simon Wilkinson of the St Melyd club won the Aberconwy trophy for the third time in four years with a 72 hole total of 296 in his last amateur tournament before turning professional . |
| 23 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 24 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 25 | Meaningful aid for the Third World |
| 26 | Sean Naidoo for the third respondent . |
| 27 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |
| 28 | CHART newcomer Tasmin Archer fears she may never get her licence after failing her driving test for the third time . |
| 29 | The work out to tender topped the £2,000 million mark in May for the third time since August of last year . |
| 30 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |