Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , Scipio Barbatus ' sarcophagus , made in the early third century BC of local stone , resembles a contemporary Greek altar . |
| 3 | Then , surprisingly , this activity was superseded by buildings of very different , non-industrial , functions , including , from north to south , a circular structure replaced in the late third or early fourth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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | This must have happened in the late third century . |
| 7 | 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 . |