Example sentences of "only the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 2 | Although kings made sporadic efforts to reform , to Purge and reorganize , again ultimately only the nineteenth century brought the abundance which permitted a system to organize the State and curb some of the worst excesses . |
| 3 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 4 | Laura is only the ninth child in the world to survive the double transplant . |
| 5 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 6 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 7 | This was only the 12th race of Sure Sharp 's career . |
| 8 | Only the second type is a chaotic motion , but the first is worth mentioning for comparison . |
| 9 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 10 | While the bigger names were following the European clay circuit , Korda was reaching only the second singles final of his career in Tampa . |
| 11 | Sadly the most vicious of these brought down the rig on ‘ Strictly Business ’ on only the second outing for this interesting-looking Castro newcomer now owned by Nigel Musto ( RCYC ) . |
| 12 | There remains only the second part of this course to describe . |
| 13 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 14 | He was only the second man she had ever slept with . |
| 15 | She had brought detective novels and thrillers and cursed her hectic reading speed : only the second day and she was half-way down the pile . |
| 16 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 17 | And this is only the second day ! |
| 18 | It 's only the second offence according to the last |
| 19 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 20 | It was only the second occasion ever in which bankers had been summoned and reflected both the high degree of public outrage and government embarrassment over the spate of recent financial scandals . |
| 21 | This was only the second occasion on which a French court had given the maximum sentence for this offence ( the first being for Arrospide — see above ; for capture of Arrospide and Urrutikoetzea in France see pp. 36406 ; 37588 ) . |
| 22 | Only the second change was implemented . |
| 23 | Only the second change was implemented . |
| 24 | In only the second year of operation , the ‘ jetless ’ Rendcomb Aerial Derby looks firmly set to take over the mantle of the Badminton Air Day , now sadly defunct . |
| 25 | Richard Littlejohn of The Sun became only the second winner of the Irritant of the Year award since Private Eye won in 1968 . |
| 26 | It was not till fourteen years later that Rospigliosi produced his second comic opera , Dal Male il Bene , of which Marazzoli composed only the Second Act . |
| 27 | INXS are only the second Aussie band to crash into the album charts at No 1 . |
| 28 | Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim , on the other hand , was only the second novel he had ever written , and he has since admitted that he was glad that the first was not published . |
| 29 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 30 | The British Government should withdraw its objection to the provisions of Article 20 of the proposed Regulation — provision for a discretionary aid to encourage farm afforestation and the improvement of existing farm woodland — and implement only the second provision in the UK . |