Example sentences of "to the fourth " in BNC.

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1 The intention is to close the loophole which allowed Maidstone United to be admitted to the Fourth Division without a home of their own .
2 It was the day 's only special stage before the drivers regrouped in San Remo for a midnight start to the fourth and final stage .
3 E. D. Vinogradoff has shown how local agrarian social and economic conditions shaped the collective political behaviour of peasants elected to the Fourth State Duma .
4 In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party .
5 This idea was accepted with varying degrees of caution by many nineteenth-century anthropologists and ultimately was wholly endorsed by Engels , who , in the preface to the fourth edition of The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , gave warm praise to Bachofen .
6 Merely the removal of about £100,000 from the League annually in TV fees and sponsorship can cause an icy blast to the Fourth Division 's infirm .
7 Fred Callaghan , the Woking coach and London cabbie , directs his Vauxhall team to Cambridge United confident that his full-strength squad will not lose their way as they did last season in falling 4-1 to the Fourth Division side .
8 ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth .
9 In the seventeen-forties Philip Miller acted as adviser to the Fourth Duke of Bedford at his Woburn estate .
10 There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years .
11 Graham was thrust into the Palace Manager 's seat when Arthur Rowe was taken seriously ill in November l 962 , and with the club in grave danger of returning to the Fourth Division .
12 The remaining evidence is all later than this , ranging from late classical law ( Ulpian ) to the fourth century , the early post-classical period of the Epitome of Ulpian and the sententiae of Paul .
13 Upon tracing the sixth ventricle of the brain , which corresponds to the fourth in the human subject , to its apparent termination , the calamus scriptorius , I perceived the appearance of a canal , continuing by a direct course into the centre of the spinal marrow .
14 Finally , and related to the fourth point , they were expensive ( as measured by normal library expenditure on user education ) .
15 The Sun 's luminosity is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature , according to Stefan 's law .
16 We portray ourselves as a rabble , and certainly are no example to the fourth form in a school .
17 In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season .
18 Two amending Directives to the Fourth Directive have been adopted and must be implemented by 1 January 1993 .
19 For instance , if I had written six songs , one on each record , that used the Not Of This Earth technique of one bass note , three chords , pitch axis , it would be quite boring at a concert when you get to the fourth one .
20 We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated .
21 ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round .
22 There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual .
23 He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment .
24 This means I can now go on to the fourth stage , a five day course in the Alps , before working for 30 days alongside a qualified guide as a kind of apprentice .
25 Sweden 's industrial output fell by 3.7% in the year to February , and Switzerland 's fell by 3.3% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1992 .
26 Australian consumer prices climbed by 1.2% in the year to the first quarter , up from a rise of just 0.3% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1992 .
27 Mr Wriglesworth expects no increase in house prices over 1993 as a whole , but he forecasts that average prices nationwide will rise by 7% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1994 and by as much as 10% in London .
28 R Hydræ , in the field with Gamma , is a Mira variable ; as it can rise to the fourth magnitude it can be a binocular object , and is very red , though at minimum it falls to magnitude 11 .
29 Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system .
30 At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD .
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