Example sentences of "be [prep] the [num ord] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 2 | Most of the existing remains are of the eleventh and twelfth centuries though built on sites of earlier buildings from the eighth century onwards . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , due to the troubled times in this area of central Europe , little survives of early Gothic building ; the great Czech monuments of the Middle Ages are of the fourteenth and fifteenth century , and even later , and are , in consequence , in the richer , more decorative Gothic style . |
| 4 | However , they will be drawn from the same list of topics that 're on the first and there may be some overlap . |
| 5 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 6 | I learnt — without making myself appear too inquisitive — that the Guérigny roots struck deep into la Sologne , a land whose finest hours had been in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 7 | Post-unemployment wages are from the second and the third interview-data sets . |
| 8 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 9 | To take part in the trial , you need to be between the 25th and 34th week of pregnancy and to have inverted or non-projectile nipples . |
| 10 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 11 | The steam trains will be on the 9th and 16th October . |
| 12 | All the hotel bedrooms are on the first and second floors and have a colour TV , a radio , a telephone and air-conditioning ( from 15 June to 15 September ) . |
| 13 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 14 | And it is possible to note , as Max Weber does , a sort of transitional phase in the movement towards a fully-fledged modernity that comes into being in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 15 | Only a small proportion of abortions are very late , ie from the 23rd to 28th weeks — out of 163,000 abortions in 1982 in England and Wales , 0.5% were in the 23rd or 24th weeks , and under 0 . |
| 16 | Records for 1930 and 1931 are scant , but during 1930 Bill achieved his sixth hole-in-one , on the former short 17th , his third at Henley , the others being on the 2nd and 4th . |
| 17 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 18 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 19 | The emphasis is on the 19th and 20th centuries . |
| 20 | Right , well er , we 've some birthdays this week there 's er Miss on the fifth today she is n't here , Mrs on the sixth , Mrs is on the sixth and Mrs of Gasworthy Close on the seventh . |
| 21 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 22 | The peak of Kendal 's wool trade was in the 17th and early 18th Centuries and Hawkshead 's prosperity waned with that of Kendal . |