Example sentences of "a fifth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A little girl was shown twisting fish-hooks into the penis of a man suspended from his wrists by bronze wire , and in a fifth scene a man and a woman on all fours were yolked together , drawing a miniature cart , whipped by a dwarf charioteer . |
| 32 | By issue four a fifth issue was promised ‘ when the weather is right ’ . |
| 33 | LAWNSWOOD Junior confirmed his liking for Edinburgh when he registered a fifth course success in yesterday 's Levy Board Handicap . |
| 34 | She really did n't want a fifth child . |
| 35 | But a fifth person appeared in the reflection of a window , can I remove them ? |
| 36 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 37 | A FIFTH person appeared in private at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday accused of the murder of George Hall , whose body was found in a sewage works at Bothwell last month . |
| 38 | In 1821 Smith made a fifth voyage to New South Shetland , but found British and American ships there , killing fur seals , which were almost exterminated in the next five years . |
| 39 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
| 40 | A fifth contribution came from the ideas of dynamic equilibrium advanced by J.T. Hack ( 1960 ) . |
| 41 | A fifth concern is the absence of a specialized competition tribunal to review the decisions of DGIV . |
| 42 | Bristow , who has just regained the world No.1 ranking and was chasing a fifth title , lost 3-1 . |
| 43 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 44 | In his keynote speech to the conference on June 26 Hawke savagely attacked the Liberal-National Party opposition and promised to lead his party to a fifth election victory . |
| 45 | AS we were going to press , a fifth candidate for the East Hampshire constituency was announced . |
| 46 | Will there be a fifth anniversary , still in hiding ? |
| 47 | Of Brazil 's 58 million children and adolescents , almost a fifth work full-time as delivery boys , rural workers , shoe-shiners or gatherers of waste paper . |
| 48 | Significantly , given this generally positive response to the Oxfordshire scheme , it is perhaps surprising that only a fifth judge that it was very useful in producing proposals for improvements in educational practice : one of its prime purposes . |
| 49 | A fifth choreographer must be added to this list . |
| 50 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 51 | The unit of 17,500 men , forming a fifth division of the South African Police ( SAP ) and called Internal Stability , would be specially equipped and stationed in areas of frequent unrest . |
| 52 | My Lord yes , if I could there was a fifth officer that erm had authorised nothing and was n't . |
| 53 | A fourth day would be used for outreach work , to include training other organisations , home visits and issue-based talks to other groups ; and a fifth day would concentrate on pro-active rather than reactive social policy work ( see Chapter 8 for an expansion of these concepts ) . |
| 54 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 55 | A fifth man was steering , and a sixth , his face hidden in his cloak , whispered instructions to the steerer . |
| 56 | Mr Walsh 's murder came just 11 hours after the UFF shot dead four Catholics and injured a fifth man as they arrived to carry out building work on houses in Castlerock . |
| 57 | A fifth man remains seriously ill in hospital . |
| 58 | An RUC spokesman said ballistic tests had established that three handguns were used in the attack , which also left a fifth man seriously injured . |
| 59 | A fifth man remains still seriously ill. 6.30pm — Shots fired at security sanger in Crossmaglen , Co Armagh . |
| 60 | A fifth man who fled , Louis Cunningham , alias Reynolds , from Dumbarton , was quickly re-captured . |