Example sentences of "was [vb pp] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , with a defence budget of $27,150 million , Japan was rated third behind the USA and the Soviet Union in terms of overall defence expenditure . |
| 2 | Be it a coincidence or an answer to prayer , Ray Powell , a senior backbencher and a strong supporter of the Keep Sunday Special campaign was drawn third in the ballot . |
| 3 | And you 'd put that on top of the flimsy and you 'd close the book and you 'd take the book and put it in the letter press and squeeze it Archimedes theory of a screw and this thing My cousin later told me , was bought third hand in eighteen sixty nine . |
| 4 | N'Zau Puna , formerly secretary-general of UNITA , was ranked third in UNITA 's hierarchy with the title " interior minister " . |
| 5 | The other architects to be awarded prizes for Second Empire designs on the War Department list were Botrel d'Hazeville , whose grand scheme resembling the Louvre was given second place ; John Thomas Rochead , whose design united the two offices in an ornate single building with high-roofed corner pavilions , was awarded third place ; the brothers , Edward and William Habershon , whose scheme for one large building with prominent central and corner pavilions and mansard roofs , around a central quadrangle , was given one of the fifth equal places ; along with John Dwyer , whose treatment was very similar to Rochead 's , but less ornate . |
| 6 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 7 | Runners-up were the National Deaf Club of London and the Brighton Branch was adjudged third . |