Example sentences of "was the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | May , this year was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |
| 32 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 33 | Probably the most remarkable native of Howden was the 12th century historian Roger de Hoveden , confidante of King Henry II and friend of Thomas a Becket . |
| 34 | It was the 12th consecutive year-on-year quarterly fall . |
| 35 | The ceasefire , arranged by the Maronite Patriarch , Mgr Nasrullah Sfeir , was the 12th since fighting started in late January . |
| 36 | This was the 12th annual competition in which centres were judged on programme booklets and associated publicity material — posters , press releases and newsletters . |
| 37 | It was the 12th goal of the season for Aldridge , who was yesterday named in the Republic of Ireland World Cup squad to meet Spain in a fortnight . |
| 38 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 39 | Today was the twentieth , the end of the closed season on hinds . |
| 40 | It was n't Victorian is was the twentieth |
| 41 | Oh , thought it was the twenty-fourth . |
| 42 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 43 | Saturday , 25th May 1974 , was the eleventh day of the general strike called by the Ulster Workers ’ Council . |
| 44 | The only thing he was thankful for was that it was the eleventh day , the rest day . |
| 45 | Mm , it was the eleventh of October nineteen thirty nine . |
| 46 | This year Norfolk members are celebrating their Silver Jubilee and the highlight of this special year was the 25th Annual Rally , held 23rd March at Thorpe St. Andrew Lower School and attended by about 240 people . |
| 47 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 48 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 49 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 50 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 51 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 52 | It was the second largest building in the city , next to the cathedral , which was much less prominent . |
| 53 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 54 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 55 | It was always likely that this would happen again this year , given that the Walker Cup team were making history whereas Faldo , for all his brilliance , was the second Briton and the fourth European in the Eighties to win at Augusta . |
| 56 | He had a series of Sunday shows down there called the Bowie Show Boat and this was the second one . |
| 57 | And for his 39-year-old mother Linda , Donald 's death was the second bereavement in a fortnight . |
| 58 | It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female . |
| 59 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 60 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |