Example sentences of "only the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 4 | Biohome is a new sintered glass media which is to the best of our knowledge only the second available in the UK . |
| 5 | Our calculations took into account only the second primary invasive melanoma in each case of primary melanoma . |
| 6 | ‘ It was only the second long distance walk I 've tackled , and very different from the first . |
| 7 | The formation of the United Indian Malaysian party , only the second Malaysian Indian party after the MIC , was announced in June 1989 . |
| 8 | As only the second Asian MP in Parliament it is anyone 's guess how that issue will affect the voting this time in this traditionally ‘ conservative ’ area . |
| 9 | It will also be only the second significant merger the industry has yet seen . |
| 10 | On June 6th , only the second royal tram ride in Blackpool 's century of trams , took place when Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester rode from Starr Gate to North Pier on board car 40 . |
| 11 | FORMER Worcestershire captain Phil Neale is set to become only the fifth honorary life member of the club at the county 's annual meeting in February . |
| 12 | Sally Gunnell , only the fifth British woman athlete to win an Olympic title , collected the Female Track Athlete award for her memorable 400 metres hurdle triumph in 53.23 seconds , while Tessa Sanderson was rewarded for her record fifth Olympics with the award for top Female Field Event Athlete . |
| 13 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 14 | The Essex girl is only the fifth British Belle ever to win an Olympic track or field title |
| 15 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 16 | The measure is not only the first full-scale law passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation as a professional legislature . |
| 17 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 18 | What mystery are they saying ? only the third sorrowful mystery ? |
| 19 | These were to prove precious learning experiences for the young Blantyre girl who was to go on to produce such wonderfully vibrant work , often featuring floral themes , who was to become only the third full female member of the Royal Scottish Academy . |
| 20 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 21 | This was only the fourteenth successful ascent , and his account of this exploit , published in 1828 , Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc , on the 8th and 9th August , 1827 , is a classic of Alpine literature : a vivid narrative of the pleasures and perils of mountaineering enhanced by examples of his skilful draughtsmanship made on the journey . |
| 22 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 23 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |