Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century . |
| 2 | As such their contribution was crucial to the related locational changes in economic activity and in population which became so important from the third quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | But they are less enthusiastic about the third thing the Europeans want to do . |
| 4 | The number of compulsory and creditors ’ voluntary liquidations fell below 5000 in the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 5 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 6 | Over in the UK touting the advantages of his NeXTStep object-oriented environment to the City of London 's financial services market , NeXT Computer Inc founder and chief executive Steve Jobs revealed that the long-awaited implementation of NeXTStep for Intel Corp 's 80486 architecture will not be generally available until the third quarter of next year . |
| 7 | The 1992 open final between St Albans and Woodmill started brightly with the southern team quickly making their intentions clear with a Greg Smale goal in the first minute and an Ian Plummer long shot which was just wide in the third minute . |
| 8 | As the severity of histological changes in the pancreas in response to caerulein such as the vacuolisation of acinar cells and the rise in plasma amylase concentrations were already significant at the third hour of infusion , it is obvious that the decline in the exocrine secretory activity might be attributed to the damage of acinar cells . |
| 9 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 10 | The many references by writers on rural affairs to ‘ the decline of the English village community ’ are usually concerned with the third of these meanings — the decline of communion . |
| 11 | This pious strain was much more apparent in the third brother , David I. Although he contributed lavishly to the Dunfermline foundation , David continued to favour the Edinburgh residence . |
| 12 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
| 13 | For example , the hearse around the coffin was practically unseen after the third quarter of the fifteenth century , though it survived for the greater obsequies . |
| 14 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 15 | Sentiment in the world equity markets was severely depressed in the third and fourth quarters of 1990 , following the August invasion of Kuwait by Iraq which put an end to a fairly strong second-quarter recovery . |
| 16 | The evolutionary stage was now set for the third and final phase of dinosaur existence : the ‘ Age of Low Feeders ’ . |
| 17 | I think it was about halfway round the third lap that John Walker made his mark on me . |
| 18 | Although these objectives refer to ‘ efficiency ’ and ‘ effectiveness ’ , in practice the scrutiny programme has been mainly concerned with the third ‘ E ’ , ‘ economy ’ ( for definitions see Chapter l ) , focusing mainly on cost reduction through streamlining administrative procedures . |
| 19 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 20 | For two reasons this process became particularly massive during the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Gregory , clearly intent on revenge for the league loss , was always in command in the first two games , but did trail 1-6 and then 7-12 in the third . |
| 22 | Stand-off Schofield was again responsible for the third Leeds try five minutes before the interval . |
| 23 | Then , at Moor Allerton Golf Club in August 1978 , George , with a net 73 , won the Maxwell Hart Trophy for Greenkeepers over 60 for the third successive year ! |
| 24 | Government response to the crisis has hit the poor in a way that has become all too familiar in the Third World . |
| 25 | So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ? |