Example sentences of "[prep] be the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | MALCOLM RIFKIND , Defence Secretary , is accused of being the third minister to sign the public immunity certificate . |
| 2 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 3 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 4 | At the time , the CCCP was considered to be the third , fourth or fifth largest wine producing country in the world ; any reliable figures were buried in bureaucratic tangle . |
| 5 | In 1983 another massive crop occurred — this was again met with joy , although the Champenois would certainly have been dismayed had 1984 turned out to be the third consecutive bumper year . |
| 6 | Conversation on the topic gave Flaubert a colique des wagons ; in June 1843 he pronounced the railways to be the third most boring subject imaginable after Mme Lafarge ( an arsenic poisoner ) and the death of the Duc d'Orleans ( killed in his carriage the previous year ) . |
| 7 | If confirmed by official figures , this will be an 80 per cent reduction on 1987 's figure , when carbon emissions from burning rain forest were said to be the third largest contributor to the greenhouse effect . |
| 8 | A ROYAL Ulster Constabulary officer killed by a single shot yesterday is believed to be the third victim of an IRA sniper using a fearsome long-range rifle . |