Example sentences of "[art] third [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third of the new partners was Felix Warre , a son of the Head Master of Eton . |
| 2 | The second theme that interests me is implicit in the opening paragraphs of the third of the published papers , ‘ Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic ’ . |
| 3 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 4 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 5 | About a third of the Japanese parts-makers and their joint-ventures now have contracts with one or other of the big three , a few with all of them . |
| 6 | Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 per cent of total incidents , and for a third of the major ones . |
| 7 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 8 | Over a third of the additional stations opened in the London area after 1919 were on Southern Region . |
| 9 | In respect of its legislative task , the EC Commission 's report of November 1988 indicated that , whilst substantial progress had been made , only a third of the required measures had been adopted . |
| 10 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 11 | The result represented a victory for the " moderate " current associated with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , already apparently favoured by the pre-election screening which eliminated about a third of the prospective candidates — most of them reportedly belonging to the more radical faction . |
| 12 | A third of the recent records relate to birds found dead or dying inland after severe gales . |
| 13 | If an author says that a third of the present holders of dukedoms in Britain have been divorced we want to know how he found this out . |
| 14 | But about a third of the top agencies in our sector all went bust in |
| 15 | A third of the infected women get AIDS through through sex with men but only about three per cent of infected |
| 16 | In the Netherlands , nearly a third of the local fungi species are extinct or shortly to become so . |
| 17 | Part-time workers will claim about a third of the projected increases , while young workers gain only about one quarter of the jobs . |
| 18 | By the end of the year , the Association had two Lodges with residents in occupation , and a third in the final stages of conversion . |