Example sentences of "by the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the third house she completed ‘ lecher ’ , ‘ libertine ’ and ‘ licentious ’ before she heard Tom mutter : ‘ Rita , please . |
| 2 | By the third week around 17 per cent thought Labour and the Alliance were also concentrating on defence . |
| 3 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 4 | To cut the dole was , in Seely 's view , essential , but ‘ this tangle can not be unravelled by any one party , or even any two , because if opposed by the third they would lose the Election and the evil would continue . ’ |
| 5 | The additional space thus provided would not only have allowed the reproduction of documents of a useful length , but would also have avoided anomalies such as the absence of any statements by the Third Marquis of Salisbury , Stanley Baldwin , Walter Elliot , Noel Skelton , the ‘ Mannheim Group ’ , and other leading Conservative politicians and publicists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 6 | Even the Physical Training and Recreation Act of 1937 , which made funds available to promote fitness amidst rumours of war and the realities of domestic rearmament , was exceedingly modest in scope with a meagre two-million-pound budget in comparison with the vast sums spent on ‘ Kraft durch Freude ’ by the Third Reich and Mussolini 's ‘ Dopolavoro ’ programme . |
| 7 | By the third round Leonard was producing a replay of their last contest , taunting Duran by thrusting his head forward , safely out of range , and then winding up his right hand with the threat of a bolo punch . |
| 8 | ‘ By the third round I knew the fight was going my way , ’ Leonard said . |
| 9 | But the ruling by two judges in favour of the mother , who in the interest of the children can not be identified , was described as ‘ cruel kindness ’ by the third , dissenting judge . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , the Maritime school accept that our forces should be deployed primarily to support the First and Second Pillars , but argue that they must also be given the strategic mobility , equipment , and training to continue Britain 's global role as required by the Third Pillar . |
| 11 | Chart 13 shows Mr Moore 's findings : in the successful sample the average ratio of long-term debt to assets was 62.4% after the LBO had been made but it fell to 37.6% by the third year as assets were sold and debt paid off . |
| 12 | In the unsuccessful sample the initial ratio was lower — 46.4% — but it then rose to 52.7% by the third year and 71.1% in the fourth ( by which time only four of the nine buy-outs survived ) . |
| 13 | By the third she knew how knocked around he was . |
| 14 | By the third day Nigel realized it was boring staying in bed . |
| 15 | By the third week the novelty had worn off , though . |
| 16 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 17 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 18 | Paisley has gone on record time after time to condemn the assassination of Catholics and has insisted that the potential violence represented by the old Protestant Volunteers and more recently by the Third Force should only be exercised in a defensive manner and in the event of a complete breakdown of law and order . |
| 19 | By the third century it became common for at least some clergy in at least some places to wear either white or black — black being the more penitential . |
| 20 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 21 | ‘ At the start , a tea cup and saucer was selling for around £30 in my shop ; by the third day they were nearer £200 and still selling . ’ |
| 22 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 23 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
| 24 | For the first two nights Martha peered under the bed for duppies and enjoyed having no one to forbid her ; by the third evening she forgot . |
| 25 | By the third day of the war , Pentagon officials boasted of being able to drop as much as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad — double the amount dropped by Allies during the 1945 bombing of Dresden . |
| 26 | By the third tee I was really worried . |
| 27 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 28 | By the third single , most people were familiar with The Wedding Present 's pop thrash and all it really did was consolidate their position . |
| 29 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 30 | This seems to have been revised twice , and by the third edition it was re-titled as Public Offices and Metropolitan Improvements , with an appendix added , comparing the cost of Hope 's plan with that of the Government 's . |