Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 2 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 3 | The year 's biggest Americana sales were held at Christie 's and Sotheby 's during the last week of January , coinciding with the Winter Antiques show in New York . |
| 4 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 5 | This is about the fourth time we 've played |
| 6 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 7 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 8 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 9 | It 's for the first christening . |
| 10 | That 's for the first world cup race , two and four man . |
| 11 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |
| 12 | Erm you 'll be getting a new set of essay titles soon , that is for the second semester from February to erm the end of . |
| 13 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 14 | Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France . |
| 15 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 16 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 17 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 18 | One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit . |
| 19 | The bulk of that is for the next generation of mobile phones — the personal communications network — to get 30 p.c. of that market . |
| 20 | If they are all full , the blockage is between the last inspection chamber and the main sewer . |
| 21 | I mean , has , has anyone else got these wo , it 's off the last bulletin . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's about the second problem that the Professor raised . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's about the first night . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |
| 25 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 26 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 27 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 28 | The nearest naked-eye star to the pole is Sigma Octantis , but as it is below the fifth magnitude it will be hidden by mist or moonlight . |
| 29 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 30 | Much of the building is of the thirteenth century and comprises encircling outer and inner curtain walls incorporating over 50 towers . |