Example sentences of "the [num ord] nine " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 2 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 3 | At Blackawton , near Totnes , the first nine holes of the Dartmouth Golf and Country Club course will be ready for play next month , and the second nine should be ready by July . |
| 4 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 5 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 6 | The breakdown of the prize-money for the event was £1,000 per hole for the first nine holes and £2,000 for the second nine holes , plus £250 for every birdie and £500 for every eagle . |
| 7 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 8 | He had completed the second nine in 29 for a round of 68 and a total of 273 , finishing with six successive birdies . |
| 9 | The Eurobond market is on course for a record year after registering a volume of $165bn for the first nine months according to Euromoney Bondware . |
| 10 | THE £13.5bn takeover battle for BAT affected the reputations and fees of all the City 's big merchant banks in the first nine months of 1989 , according to figures announced yesterday by the magazine Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 11 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 12 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 13 | In the first nine months of 1989 , British companies spent £2.1bn on buying continental companies , up on the £1.6bn recorded in the comparable period . |
| 14 | Over the first nine months of 1922 money taxes reached on average a mere 3 per cent of the pre-war level in real terms . |
| 15 | Sales for the first nine months of the year , at 1,698,221 , are now 11.52 per cent behind the same period last year . |
| 16 | NatWest Bancorp lost $140m in the first nine months of 1990 , mainly because of dud property loans . |
| 17 | In 1989 Swedes spent a net SKr28 billion ( $4.5 billion ) on foreign equities , followed by a net SKr20 billion in the first nine months of 1990 . |
| 18 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 19 | At Blackawton , near Totnes , the first nine holes of the Dartmouth Golf and Country Club course will be ready for play next month , and the second nine should be ready by July . |
| 20 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 21 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 22 | For the first nine months , pre-tax profits were £703m , representing a 21 per cent fall on the same period in 1990 , while turnover fell 3.8 per cent to £9442m . |
| 23 | Sabic announced a SR 1952m ( $521m ) net profit for the first nine months of 1991 , on a turnover of SR 6391m . |
| 24 | In the first nine months of the year , net profits were NKr 1041m ( against NKr 1897m in 1990 ) . |
| 25 | For the first nine months of 1991 net profits rose 3 per cent to £857m and turnover rose 3 per cent to £1545m . |
| 26 | For the first nine months of the year profits were £409m , against £1219m in the previous year , reflecting oil price changes and therefore stock holding . |
| 27 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 28 | Rhône-Poulenc announced a rise in operating profits of 8.1 per cent during the first nine months of 1991 to FFr 4887m ( £1 = FFr9.68 ) , despite a persistently poor economic climate . |
| 29 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 30 | The achievements of the first nine months of the Uprising were impressive . |