Example sentences of "[prep] the fourth [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |
| 2 | It says that it will be patchy and hesitant and that , even then , Britain will be at the bottom of the growth , investment and employment leagues for the fourth year in succession under a Tory Government . |
| 3 | Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December . |
| 4 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |
| 5 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 6 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run forever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 7 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run for ever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 8 | Last season United watched Schmeichel regularly as Brondby won the Danish title for the fourth time in five years and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup . |
| 9 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 10 | I had another massage , warmed up again , tuned into my Walkman and then went through the reporting procedures for the fourth time in two days . |
| 11 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 12 | As Ciaran Fitzgerald 's charges bombed for the fourth time in succession to comfortably claim the tournament 's Wooden Spoon . |
| 13 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 14 | For the fourth time in its five year history , the ARC , the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers , has been bedevilled by light winds on what should be the tradewind route from the Canary Islands to the West Indies . |
| 15 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 16 | Two more years and , in company with Walcott , he would have the first-class record outright , putting on an unbeaten 574 for the fourth wicket in Port-of-Spain , his contribution this time being 255 . |
| 17 | Then I soberly tick off my own failings : defeatism , fear of the black off its spot , terror of the fourth ball in a break ( not a regular terror for obvious reasons ) , plus a tendency to play my best only when several frames down . |
| 18 | In one of his congress speeches , Mr Nyers drew the curious analogy with the collapse of the Fourth Republic in France , and ‘ democracy ’ by General de Gaulle . |
| 19 | It held that in principle a drug test is a ‘ search ’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights . |
| 20 | Eventually the British Standards Institution became the official English editorial body ; the publication of the full English edition , which was long overdue , began with the fourth edition in 1943 . |
| 21 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 23 | After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France . |
| 24 | Reformat the name and address in the fourth paragraph in italics |
| 25 | Faith and Reason : We know only that God is a mystery : In the fourth article in our series on the mutability of God , Herbert McCabe OP argues that neither change nor stasis are applicable to God 's ‘ human ’ suffering |
| 26 | Mr Eggar said : ‘ This has been the largest round , in terms of the number of blocks on offer , since the fourth round in 1972 . |
| 27 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 28 | The Bolsheviks took six of the nine labour curias in the elections to the Fourth Duma in 1912 . |
| 29 | Moreover , working-class political parties remained illegal to the end , and in the elections to the Fourth Duma in 1912 , workers were represented by a mere 13 deputies out of a total of 415 . |
| 30 | We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school . |