Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] word in " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 2 | From those brought up to regard the system as the last word in representing the Keynesian system , such a virulent reaction is hardly surprising . |
| 3 | The following reductions are applied iteratively until there are only two vertices , one defined by the start of the first word in the utterance , the second by the end of the last word . |
| 4 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
| 5 | But at the time Mendeleev , like Clerk Maxwell , looked like the last word in an old discussion rather than the first in a new one . |
| 6 | ‘ Take a seat while I get you something to drink , ’ he invited , indicating what looked like the last word in comfort in the shape of a couch — one of a pair in the room . |
| 7 | Each node in the structure contains one word and one pointer to the next word in the list . |
| 8 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 9 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |