Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 2 | Photographer Albert Watson superimposed the giant cat 's face on a portrait of the singer for the 25th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine . |
| 3 | GROUP employees have scooped a prestigious national health and safety award for the 25th year running . |
| 4 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 5 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 6 | In 1939 , for instance , in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of ‘ the stilted language that then passed for ‘ good English ’ in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles , Newbolt , the backwash of Lionel Johnson , Fred Manning , the Quarterlies and the rest of ‘ em ’ . |
| 7 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 8 | This is not surprising , for the nineteenth century was an age which loved spectacle , in its paintings , in its theatre , and in its buildings . |
| 9 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 10 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 11 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 13 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 14 | Some of these high estimates for the nineteenth century , which put mean age at menarche higher than in previous periods , have been questioned ( Bullough 1981 ) . |
| 15 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |
| 16 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 17 | our party 's we 've arranged our Christmas party for our residents for the nineteenth of |
| 18 | To resolve the dilemma they must piece together the sort of documentary and pictorial evidence that is usually plentifully available for the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 20 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 21 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 22 | It is significant that the Palace were able to make two serious challenges for the 3rd Division South title in the four seasons that Hubert was with us . |
| 23 | He made his debut for Palace on 27 October 1923 when Palace won 1–0 at Bradford City but he really came to the fore when an injury to Bob Greener left a vacancy in the half-back line for the 3rd Replay with Notts County at Villa Park , in Palace 's longest ever Cup-tie in February 1924 . |
| 24 | Fair-haired , but perhaps somewhat slight of build for the rigours of the lower reaches of the Football League , Bernard was certainly a fast and cagey winger , and his talent was recognised when he was selected for the 3rd Division South representative side against the 3rd Division North , in the fifth and final match between them at Selhurst Park on 30 October 1957 . |
| 25 | The next report came in for the 3rd goal , and again said ‘ Leeds are beginning to get back into the match , but Norwich have scored a 3rd ’ … all other reports/comments just mention the goals . |
| 26 | Crewe Alexandra have drawn Leeds at Elland Road for the 3rd round of the FA Cup . |
| 27 | Then we gave a concert for the 100th anniversary of the Dresden Bank . |
| 28 | I could be bathing the children , watching that Thomas the Tank Engine video for the 100th time … |
| 29 | EF-One-Eleven radar jamming aircraft took off in formation for a flypast , to mark the start of a deactivation ceremony for the 42nd Squadron . |
| 30 | Its sound provided the first syllable of Poirot 's name ‘ poir ’ , and for the second one need look no further than the French word ‘ perdreau ’ , meaning ‘ a young partridge ’ . |