Example sentences of "[prep] [art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Elections take place for a third of the councillors in each year that there is not a county council election . |
2 | For a third of the women these hardships were temporarily alleviated when they obtained new paid employment . |
3 | It provides for legalisation of the banned Solidarity trade union , for a third of the seats in the lower house of parliament to be reserved for the opposition , and for free elections to a new upper house . |
4 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
5 | 3 Place a third of the apple mixture in the bottom of a glass bowl and top with a third of the breadcrumbs . |
6 | The first reported expression of dissent occurred in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters [ 1987 ] FSR 330 where Scott J at pp347 and 348 said , having quoted from the judgment of Neill LJ in Faccenda , both counsel before me express some reservations about that passage insofar as it suggests that confidential information can not be protected by a suitably worded restrictive convenant binding on an ex-employee unless the information can be regarded as trade secret in the third of the categories described by Goulding J. I am bound to say that I share these reservations . |
7 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
8 | We turn now to the third of the imperatives that shape the bargaining climate : the political context . |
9 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
10 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |
11 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
12 | Isobel Mitchell , one of the organisers of a petition signed by a third of the islands ' adults calling for an open inquiry to be held by a sheriff , said the secrecy was astonishing . |