Example sentences of "a [num ord] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates .
2 When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes .
3 They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity .
4 And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter .
5 or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be .
6 In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta .
7 Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ?
8 A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter
9 So if we had a sixth and a twelfth well the sixth is the same as two twelfth and another twelfth makes how many ?
10 If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same .
11 So you 've then got a minor second , a third , a sixth and a seventh .
12 A note stated that Roger was a partner having a sixth and a " two thirtieth part " of mining works at Coniston since July 1692 .
13 In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value .
14 So we must be shared now this is the interesting thing which do you think is bigger , a a sixth or a third .
15 And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men …
16 And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men …
17 A fourth or a special name for it a quarter
18 A fourth okay which is bigger a fourth or a sixth ?
19 One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications .
20 And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through .
21 Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit .
22 Major and minor 2nds are perhaps best avoided except when an open string can be used e.g. : ( transpose a fifth or a ninth higher for the other strings ) .
23 Moreover , trade union students , at around a fifth or a quarter of all short-course students , are a smaller proportion of the total than we hoped .
24 Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family .
25 Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives .
26 Later that month an ambiguous assembly in the king 's chamber granted a subsidy of one eighth and a fifth and a wool prise of 8000 sacks in return for a royal promise to confirm the charters .
27 In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports .
28 Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ?
29 He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America .
30 Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used .
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