Example sentences of "was the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 2 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 3 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 4 | The five-mile sponsored walk was the fifth organised by the Battersea & Tooting and Lambeth Groups and the biggest so far , taking in visits to 11 embassies in central London . |
| 5 | Profit , climber of the ‘ winter trilogy ’ of the Eiger , Grandes Jorasses and Matterhorn north faces , and Beghin , for whom this was the fifth 8000m peak , waited 45 days at basecamp for their chance , accompanied by two lady doctors . |
| 6 | This was the Fifth ( or Sixth , according to one 's definition ) such Congress : most had taken place in Europe , but that preceding the Manchester meeting was held in New York in 1927 . |
| 7 | That was the fifth of January , that was old Yule was the fifth of January was January was y Old Christmas , er Chris er Yule Day was old Christmas day . |
| 8 | That was the fifth of January , that was old Yule was the fifth of January was January was y Old Christmas , er Chris er Yule Day was old Christmas day . |
| 9 | , Sir Richard ( c. 1410–1482 ) , courtier and poet , was the fifth son in the family of five sons and four daughters of William , seventh Baron Roos of Helmsley ( d . |
| 10 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 11 | He was the fifth son ( the eldest of whom died aged thirteen ) of Robert Macmillan , blacksmith at Courthill Smithy , and his wife Mary Auld . |
| 12 | It was the fifth the two had played and the closest yet . |
| 13 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 14 | After 18 months of monetary restraint , it was the fifth cut to have been effected since the beginning of 1990 ( by the end of the year the basic rate had been reduced to 12 per cent ) . |
| 15 | It was the fifth test since the French government 's adoption of a new policy of disclosing all such tests , announced in May 1990 [ not 1989 as wrongly stated on p. 37886 ] . |
| 16 | The first occasion was the fifth of September , it must have been . |
| 17 | He was the fifth best junior , under 20 that is , Britain had ever produced . |
| 18 | The fall in December 's outstanding credit was the fifth consecutive monthly drop and easily the biggest since the figures went into the red in August . |
| 19 | What was the Fifth Army to do next ? |
| 20 | it was the fifth or the sixth of |
| 21 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ( 1714–88 ) was the fifth of Johann Sebastian Bach 's twenty children and the most talented and innovative . |
| 22 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 23 | The ‘ better ’ one was the 13th , where the shot would have been an iron but became a four-wood because of one of Augusta 's rare bad lies . |
| 24 | The date was the 13th . |
| 25 | Another defeat , this time by Wigan , was the 13th of the season at Feethams , with Bury scoring a second half winner to finish the away programme on a sad note the 16th on tour . |
| 26 | In world terms , it was the 9th biggest carpet manufacturer in 1989 with total sales of £170m approx . |
| 27 | This was the 9th championships at Little Wittenham . |
| 28 | This year was the fiftieth anniversary of his joining the British Trotskyist movement . |
| 29 | May , this year , was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |
| 30 | May , this year , was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |