Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 2 | But we lost 6–4 in the 3rd in the final . ’ |
| 3 | O'Connor , jun , starting the day three under , hung on to finish on 142 for fourth place — still two under despite having a disastrous double-bogey 7 at the ninth in his 73 . |
| 4 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 5 | Our next reunion is March , eleventh through the fourteenth in Tucsan , Arizona and not only will we dedicate the museum at that time but er Les assures me he 's gon na have the airplane ready done , be er flown again with a . |
| 6 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 7 | The first style was employed in the execution of literary and liturgical manuscripts , and those of the second in the preparation of official , royal , legal and business documents . |
| 8 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 9 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 10 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 11 | OPPOSITE LEFT : Days Mill , in Nailsworth , was one of the first in the area to have power looms installed in a specially built loom shed . |
| 12 | The road through it to Exeter was always a busy and important highway , and the Honiton Turnpike Trust , set up in 1753 , was one of the first in Devon . |
| 13 | Vicente Gomes da Silva , born on 12 March 1827 , was the first commercial photographer in Madeira and one of the first in Portugal . |
| 14 | A banner group was started 10 years ago in QP , probably one of the first in Scotland . |
| 15 | At Disney 's MGM studios , 16-year-old Theresa Powell was one of the first in line to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 16 | The girl was one of the first in the country to use new powers granted to minors under the Children 's Act to apply to the courts for permission to live where they wanted to . |
| 17 | This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range . |
| 18 | Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ . |
| 19 | The farm was one of the first in Britain to join the Countryside Commission 's demonstration farms project . |
| 20 | In the Sixties Galerie der Spiegel was one of the first in Cologne to show Americans such as Rauschenberg , Motherwell , Lichtenstein , the émigré Josef Albers , and Christo , as well as the European New Realists , Spoerri , Armand and Yves Klein . |
| 21 | This poem , written in free verse , was one of the first in which Apollinaire eliminated punctuation , and was composed of seemingly disconnected , partially self-sufficient phrases and ideas , which by their placing and interaction serve to evoke both form and atmosphere . |
| 22 | MERSEYSIDE solicitors Goldsmith Williams is one of the first in the country to gain BS5750 quality assurance status . |
| 23 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 24 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 25 | To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 . |
| 26 | They are Far Senior in the first in the twelve fifty and Panto Prince did not run in the Mackeson at two o'clock . |