Example sentences of "[num ord] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 2 | To Australia by Tri-Pacer in just thirteen months … finishing fourteenth out of 25 that started in the England to Australia rally , and the only all-woman team to make it ! |
| 3 | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development education statistics show that for 18-year-olds staying on in education , Britain is fourteenth out of fifteen . |
| 4 | And we came second out of all the schools . |
| 5 | On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole . |
| 6 | In a survey of the top IT-based issues for managers in the UK , it was recently found that ‘ external data ’ ranked in importance as 23rd out of 23 issues of concern ! |
| 7 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 8 | We finished 47th out of the 63 . ’ |
| 9 | Dunne finished in 1-10-15 and was placed 15th out of 120 . |
| 10 | Bonnier qualified 17th out of 18 — the only slower car being a 4wd Matra — and retired on lap 7 . |
| 11 | He came 4,247th out of 30,000 competitors and his sponsorship raised £1,178 for St Bonaventure 's . |
| 12 | The Kent-based team finished fourth out of 15 nations in the eight-way event . |
| 13 | The Green candidate , finishing fourth out of eight , won only 1.2 per cent ( 1.5 in 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Whittle , Plaid Cymru 's man , lives in Caerphilly and still finished fourth out of four last time . |
| 15 | Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline . |
| 16 | Mr Peter Sloyan , chief executive of Northumbria Tourist Board , said he commissioned the survey after the North East came eighth out of 11 favourite tourist areas in Britain . |
| 17 | But Mr Gould took the sixth out of seven constituency places . |
| 18 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 19 | Theirs was also the only three-wheeler in the Monte Carlo Challenge , run over the traditional route , and their 1933 Morgan completed the gruelling 2,000-mile distance to finish 82nd out of 100 cars , half of which travelled from starting points in Berlin and Oslo . |
| 20 | Television exposure is the most significant outlet for this exposure in the United States , but rugby was only ranked 103rd out of 114 spectator sports in a recent survey by the Sports Marketing Group of Dallas , Texas . |
| 21 | Hudson , who held the innings together for eight hours 40 minutes , was finally yorked off-stump by Benjamin , seventh out after facing 521 balls from which he hit 20 fours . |
| 22 | THE winner of Computer Guardian 's Compaq Competition is Allan Kelly of Slough , Bucks , whose card was first out of the hat . |
| 23 | First out of the stalls was the American challenger One For All , but then Ossian took up his pacemaking role and led along the far side from Ramsin and the Aga Khan 's Sharapour . |
| 24 | First out of the hat comes Plans and Elevations : Ben Kelly Design and Jasper Morrison ; plans , projects and drawings , 1981–89 . |
| 25 | Nutty hesitated , looked back , and saw Jazz emerging bottom first out of the hole in the hedge . |
| 26 | She never minds being first out of a game and never winning . |
| 27 | First out of the hat was John Riley of Fribourg , Switzerland , who receives a signed copy of Melvyn 's meisterwork , A Time To Dance . |
| 28 | They try things first out of curiosity . |
| 29 | He clung to her , at first out of pity , then self-pity , and finally from need . |
| 30 | Receivers a bank appointed under the terms of a debenture did themselves a disservice recently when they failed to pay themselves first out of the proceeds of the receivership , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment . |