Example sentences of "was the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 2 | He was the fifth best junior , under 20 that is , Britain had ever produced . |
| 3 | The fall in December 's outstanding credit was the fifth consecutive monthly drop and easily the biggest since the figures went into the red in August . |
| 4 | In world terms , it was the 9th biggest carpet manufacturer in 1989 with total sales of £170m approx . |
| 5 | This was the 12th annual competition in which centres were judged on programme booklets and associated publicity material — posters , press releases and newsletters . |
| 6 | It was the 12th consecutive year-on-year quarterly fall . |
| 7 | This year Norfolk members are celebrating their Silver Jubilee and the highlight of this special year was the 25th Annual Rally , held 23rd March at Thorpe St. Andrew Lower School and attended by about 240 people . |
| 8 | But sh she was the second best shooter there . |
| 9 | It was the second major shock of the week . |
| 10 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 11 | Of the 24 shareholders Haug & Co. now held 9¾ shares having released 1¼ since 1564 ; Sir William Cecill with 2 was the second major shareholder . |
| 12 | It was the second major concession by the President , the first having been to abandon his election campaign pledge of no new taxes . |
| 13 | The study was the second major investigation into the crash , following that by a United States Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism [ for whose report in May 1990 see p. 37475 ] . |
| 14 | The incident was the second major crisis since September 1991 [ see p. 38451 ] involving access by international weapons inspectors acting under UN Gulf ceasefire resolutions . |
| 15 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 16 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 17 | The award was the second international recognition of SHARQ 's safety record in 1991 — in November SHARQ received the British Safety Council 's Sword of Honour , an award bestowed on only 30 companies worldwide . |
| 18 | Malaria was probably a much more important immediate and underlying cause of death in this population than in any other trial population , with the possible exception of the Sudan , where ‘ fever ’ was the second commonest symptom associated with death . |
| 19 | This was the second annual arrangement of a three-year ESAF arrangement for a total of SDR136,050,000 which had been approved in July 1988 , and under which Bolivia had already drawn SDR45,350,000 . |
| 20 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 21 | The accident was the second recent major air disaster in the Himalayas [ for Thai Airways Airbus A-310 crash in July see pp. 39033 ; 39073 ] . |
| 22 | Expansion to north Italy brought into play the gold of the Val d'Aosta and south Piedmont , but it was the Second Punic War ( 218–201 B.C. ) which first increased the supply of gold significantly by taking in the alluvial deposits of the Guadalquivir . |
| 23 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 24 | But the Communists ' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign . |
| 25 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 26 | Bob Anderson , an American climber and Everest veteran who was part of the successful Kangshung face team that put Steve Venables on the summit , was the second Western climber to speak to Krishchaty . |
| 27 | This was the second such call in two years and both took place after dark . |
| 28 | This was the second such " traffic-light coalition " ( Ampelcoalition ) to be set up at Land level in Germany , after that in Brandenburg [ see p. 37762 ] . |
| 29 | This was the second such visit by a US defence delegation in 1992 [ see p. 38727 ] . |
| 30 | It was the second such operation by the Rangers , believed to have the anti-terrorist Delta force amongst their ranks , and who were apparently sent into the war-torn town to capture Aideed . |