Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] third " in BNC.

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1 A BIRKENHEAD apprentice car technician has been named as the best third year trainee by the Shell-owned nation-wide motoring centre chain , Superdrive .
2 Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung .
3 Indeed , Scipio Barbatus ' sarcophagus , made in the early third century BC of local stone , resembles a contemporary Greek altar .
4 A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons , particularly axes , shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC : ‘ pure ’ copper ; arsenical copper ( an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic ) ; tin bronze or leaded tin bronze ; and iron .
5 Then , surprisingly , this activity was superseded by buildings of very different , non-industrial , functions , including , from north to south , a circular structure replaced in the late third or early fourth century by an aisled barn , a rectangular shed later embellished with a portico and an internal apse , and two further circular buildings ; opposite the latter to the west was a fourth-century mausoleum .
6 Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily .
7 Bond took over at Turf Moor shortly after Burnley had been relegated to the old Third Division .
8 The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century .
9 as the storm clouds gathered over the struggling Third Division club .
10 Remove any dry outer leaves , cut off the top third or more and lightly bruise the fleshy base .
11 He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic .
12 This must have happened in the late third century .
13 The mean GT4 test scores rose sharply from 30 per cent produced by the bottom third of pupils to 77 per cent obtained by the top third .
14 In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 .
15 196 , for reasons given above , and supplies were probably limited by the early third century .
16 Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table .
17 However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress .
18 It was certainly suppressed by the late third or fourth century when the stone building was provided with a corridor 4 m ( 13 ft ) wide along its western side , comprising two and ultimately three rooms .
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