Example sentences of "to the fifth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 2 | One item of interest in 1923 was the purchase of a small piece of church land ( about treble green size ) to widen the approach to the fifth green by bringing into bounds more of the bushes on the right . |
| 3 | A Thames waterman would take his grandson , on his Sunday visits , out on his lighter , handing down his skills to the fifth generation to work on the river : ‘ he was one of those methodical old fellows who live quietly , and never get ruffled . ’ |
| 4 | It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor . |
| 5 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 6 | Northampton got to the fifth round for the first time after beating Bristol City ( finalists in 1909 ) and then Darlington , in a replay at home . |
| 7 | Welcome to the fifth Beverley Early Music Festival . |
| 8 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 9 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 10 | We know that kinetic energy increases as length raised to the fifth power . |
| 11 | COLIN STEPHENS was tackled onto the Stradey Park terraces , and out of the East v West game , as cup holders Llanelli moved through to the fifth round of the SWALEC Cup with a 54-3 win over St Albans . |
| 12 | He went into the building , up in the lift to the fifth floor , and called a conference among his senior colleagues . |
| 13 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 14 | Moving the Contemporary art to the fifth floor provided room adjacent to the American Painting and Sculpture galleries . |
| 15 | The decomposition process is the function of a whole myriad of microscopically small living creatures , bacteria , which must have access to the fifth component , air . |
| 16 | Coming to the fifth question on the agenda — how can the development agencies contribute to the employment prospects of West Belfast residents both inside and outside of the area ? — one contributor said that he had spoken to marketing people from the IDB and that they had no interest in West Belfast . |
| 17 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 18 | We park in the underground car-park , catch a special lift to the fifth floor and walk across the corridor into a special conference room . ’ |
| 19 | He is keeper to the fifth prizewinner Mr Alistair Haywood , and they came with Mr and Mrs Haywood . |
| 20 | MITI is now developing the workplans for a ‘ New Information Processing Technology Programme ’ as a successor to the Fifth Generation Programme . |
| 21 | If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth . |
| 22 | She and Sheila had been very close at school up to the Fifth Form . |
| 23 | It remained for Buus ( e.g. in No. 4 of his First Book ) to achieve the unification of a ricercare by deriving all its imitative sections from the same basic theme , which was , exceptionally , transposed to other degrees of the mode — not merely to the fifth or fourth . |
| 24 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 25 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 26 | Divisions within the CCP , apparent well before the crushing of the pro-democracy movement , were reportedly exacerbated in the run-up to the fifth plenum of the 13th CCP central committee , which was held in Beijing on Nov. 6-9 , 1989 [ see p. 37040 ] . |
| 27 | As part of the drive to restore party unity Jiang Zemin 's speech to the fifth plenum , released on Nov. 21 , urged party members to " urgently " go back to studying Marxism-Leninism and to build the party 's " fighting power " to " combat strength " [ see p. 37040 ] . |
| 28 | A general election to the fifth People 's Assembly ( Majlis al-Sha'ab ) was held on May 22-23 [ for previous elections in 1986 see p. 34580 ] . |
| 29 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 30 | While these discoveries illustrated remarkably well the period of the greatest renown and prosperity of Aphrodisias ( between late Hellenistic times and the early Byzantine era , i.e. , first century BC to the seventh century AD ) , archaeological evidence for a long prehistory dating back to the fifth millennium BC was recorded in excavations of two habitation mounds , or höyük , located at the heart of the Roman city . |