Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expansion of the market economy in the nineteenth century at first stimulated the crime by providing markets for stolen cattle . |
| 2 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 3 | And I 'm almost having to bully kids in the fifth year at present into getting hold of the Echo at night and writing off to jobs because they believe they are of no value . |
| 4 | The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure . |
| 5 | This will be a pioneer study of the Italian opera singing profession as a whole , from the beginnings of opera in the early seventeenth century to the latest point in the twentieth century at which historical inquiry can operate at an unrelaxed standard . |
| 6 | Though Carcassonne is more picturesque , Aigues Mortes , built in the thirteenth century at the mouth of the river Rhône near Montpellier , retains much more of its original work . |
| 7 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 8 | MARTIN DUGARD rode unbeaten on his home track as England outclassed Australia 73–35 in the first Test at Oxford last night . |
| 9 | Had it finished the day after the Irish rattled the All Blacks in the First Test at Carisbrook then Murphy would have taken his men home in high humour . |
| 10 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 11 | HEAVY rains gave way long enough for New Zealand to declare at 325–3 yesterday in the first Test at against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 12 | And if yesterday 's result is followed by defeat in the first Test at Old Trafford , the clamour for change at the top will reach a crescendo . |
| 13 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 14 | Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets . |
| 15 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 16 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 17 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't want to be in a position where that need arises , but the way we played was totally unacceptable — particularly in the first half at Sheffield . |
| 19 | Nor can Devos yet match Bronfman for inexorable bravura in the second movement ; he is also prone to misreadings — in the Second Sonata at 0′44″ and 2′20″ in the slow movement , in the First Sonata at 2′45″ in the first movement , and in the Janáček first movement at 1′19″ . |
| 20 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 21 | The meetings and discussions in Washington were part of a week-long visit to North America by Gorbachev , who visited Canada on May 29-30 , and the US cities of Minneapolis on June 3 and San Francisco on June 4 ( when he also met President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea , in the first contact at the highest level between the two countries ) . |
| 22 | In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury . |
| 23 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 24 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 25 | 28,545 was the biggest gate of the week-end in the First Division at Newcastle v Southend . |
| 26 | A small group of specialist and non-specialist staff and a couple of parents of children with special needs together devised a two-day training course on disability awareness , directed in the first instance at staff working with young children . |
| 27 | Set in the first instance at 17.5 million b/d , the ceiling remained at about this level , subject to variations ( sometimes just for a specific quarter ) , for most of the decade . |
| 28 | And just as in the first leg at Ibrox a fortnight ago , there were football fireworks at Elland Road last night . |
| 29 | A chance to sit back and remember their magical 3-1 win over Tranmere in the first leg at the County Ground . |
| 30 | But whatever blame for the German failure in the first week at Verdun may attach to Falkenhayn ( and in his Memoirs the Crown Prince heaps all of it on him ) , the Fifth Army Command was not entirely beyond reproach . |