Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
2 | San Jose , California-based Conner Peripherals Inc warns that it expects to report a loss from operations for the second quarter ending June 30 , adding that the expected loss reflects ongoing price competition , excess capacity and a transition in product demand to 200Mb and higher capacity drives ; a continuation of factors affecting the second quarter , as well as a seasonal slowdown in the summer , could also lead to operating losses in the third quarter , the firm said . |
3 | Pressure on selling prices and a more competitive mix of product sold into the market have depressed operating profits by a third from £3.63m to £2.43m . |
4 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
5 | It was ‘ obvious ’ to the speaker in the film version of Howard 's End ( who was talking about ‘ Meaning in Music ’ ) that Beethoven was depicting Goblins in the third movement of his Fifth Symphony . |
6 | In the Belgian Open in March , she dislocated her collarbone doing morote-gari in the third round . |
7 | Family planners used to be condemned as lackeys of US imperialism who wanted to suppress the dark threatening hordes of the Third World poor . |
8 | One of the most far reaching attempts within the third approach — the resettlement of large numbers of small farmers on newly defined farms — was in Zaire . |
9 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |