Example sentences of "as the seventh " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Mobutu of Zaire has publicly objected to not being acknowledged as the seventh richest man in the world . |
| 2 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 3 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
| 4 | Top Of The Pops , reported to be in its dying days , trailed in as the seventh best TV programme . |
| 5 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 6 | The June meeting was attended by Hans Brunhart , the head of government and Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein , which was involved in EFTA via a special protocol to the Stockholm Convention ; Brunhart said on April 3 that his country had been accepted as the seventh EFTA negotiating and contracting partner in the EES and was ready to become a full member of EFTA or strengthen institutional ties with the organization once an EES agreement was concluded . |