Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grant blazed forward in the ninth with a big right and left and Graham was down . |
| 2 | England , needing 99 to win , should lost captain Graham Gooch in the fifth over when , as TV showed , Waqar Younis 's throw to Moin Khan , the wicketkeeper , beat the sprinting batsman by 2′ . |
| 3 | Later the word was applied somewhat more loosely to capital letters and others of large size , introduced in the fifth to eighth centuries . |
| 4 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 5 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 6 | In the 15th over Stinson made the break-through for Armagh when he bowled Adams to make it 35 for one . |
| 7 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 8 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 9 | In the 32nd over Jones bowled McIlroy before the batsman had troubled the scorers . |
| 10 | And in the 29th over Armagh captured the important wicket of McFarland brilliantly caught at mid-off by Bullick when he had reached 48 . |
| 11 | In the 22nd over Fletcher was caught by fellow New Zealander Rheinholds off the bowling of Alan Jones . |
| 12 | But we lost 6–4 in the 3rd in the final . ’ |
| 13 | So Benn scraped on in the seventh of seven places . |
| 14 | I went in the first on the right and closed the door . |
| 15 | Oakes is going for Ballasarly in the two thirty five Cheltenham , Leslie 's going for Leotard that 's the top weight in the first at one twenty five er oh in the second . |
| 16 | In the first of a two-part series , Michael Edwards selects wines which break the Italian mould |
| 17 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 18 | In the first of three articles that follow the progress of a chair making project , Steve Goulden explains how he designs a chair , looking for robustness , comfort and elegance |
| 19 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 20 | In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN . |
| 21 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 22 | The monster of Greater Lebanon : In the first of two articles on the origins and architects of the situation in Lebanon , Robert Fisk describes the events which Muslim historians would later refer to as ‘ the betrayal ’ |
| 23 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 24 | In the first of a monthly series , Michael Jackson hunts in vain |
| 25 | In the Garden : Planning to beat a leafy retreat at home : In the first of a series for novice gardeners , Anna Pavord stresses the value of careful forethought |
| 26 | It added up to an emphatic win by 137 runs , in the first of the tourists ' warm-up matches before Sunday 's opening Nehru Cup match against Sri Lanka . |
| 27 | In the first of their works which deals with this topic at any length , The German Ideology , written in 1846 , they state on page 43 : ‘ The various stages of development in the division of labour are just so many different forms of ownership , i.e. the existing stage in the division of labour determines also the relations of individuals to one another with reference to the material , instrument and product of labour . ’ |
| 28 | In the first of the book 's three sections Kemp examines the theory and practice of perspective from Brunelleschi to Turner . |
| 29 | APAP members in London — believed to be seriously disaffected by the association 's stance in the dispute — will be met by an executive member , Mr Peter Kenney , in the first of a series of meetings to rally support for the union amid threats of a revolt following the resignation of the 132-strong Hertfordshire chapter last week . |
| 30 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |