Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
2 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
3 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
4 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
5 | Product should be out in the third quarter on Sun Microsystems Inc , Data General Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co workstations . |
6 | A new edition , now under development will be out in the third quarter . |
7 | Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says a development release of its Progress version 7 database and toolset will be out in the third quarter of this year . |
8 | An R4000SC multiprocessor is also under development , and should be out in the third quarter . |
9 | Surprisingly , nablab sales in the off-trade , which is traditionally less affected by recessionary pressure , were down by a third . |
10 | We 've some good news at last for Swindon Town fans — their team 's through to the third round of the coca cola cup |
11 | Figures in the CBI report show that manufacturing output in the past decade , at precisely the same point in the economic cycle , is up by a quarter , investment is up by a third , productivity is up by a half and manufactured exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
12 | Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
13 | If we take a 10-year view , we see that manufacturing investment is up by a third in comparison with a similar part of the same cycle . |
14 | The hon. Gentleman knows that if we compare the position now with that of 10 years ago — at the same stage of the economic cycle — we see that manufacturing output is up by a quarter , manufacturing investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half , and manufactured exports are up by almost three quarters . |
15 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
16 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |