Example sentences of "a fifth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rob , who lives in a fifth floor apartment , said : ‘ The noise got louder and louder . |
| 2 | A FAMILY holiday turned to tragedy when a four-year-old boy plunged to his death from a fifth floor balcony , an inquest heard . |
| 3 | Bond has missed a fifth deadline for the A$2.5billion joint venture brewing deal with the New Zealand group , Lion Nathan , and the Western Australia State Government Insurance Commission has said it is considering winding-up proceedings . |
| 4 | He went on : ‘ They are a fifth column , and we can not permit that . |
| 5 | Airdrie had something of a fifth column working for them . |
| 6 | Since the 1950s there has been a fifth column of British writers who demonstrate and often acknowledge their admiration for French writing , Alain Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman in particular . |
| 7 | Eight opposition politicians were sentenced on Sept. 23 to prison terms of up to three years on charges of " acting as a fifth column " during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 8 | A fifth vessel , chartered by the French government , sailed direct from Durres to Marseille with the refugees from the French embassy . |
| 9 | In his book on Environmental Systems Dury ( 1981 ) adopts an approach to physical environment in which he adopts the four-fold classification of systems devised by Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) but in addition adds a fifth type in the form of an ecosystem justified as including ‘ sets of biosystems which interact with one another and with their immediate physical environment ’ . |
| 10 | Following a three-day meeting in London on Sept. 24-26 , the Sino-British Liaison Group ( JLG ) announced that Hong Kong 's Court of Final Appeal , which in 1993 would replace the Privy Council in London , would be composed of the Chief Justice , three Hong Kong-based judges and a fifth member to be invited alternately from two panels — Panel A , containing retired and serving Court of Appeal judges in Hong Kong , and Panel B , made up of retired judges from other common law jurisdictions . |
| 11 | A fifth member of the family , Steve , works for a contractor and daughter Marie is employed by the AEA . |
| 12 | Consistent with the ‘ national interest ’ idea was a fifth principle , about the key matter of finance . |
| 13 | For him , a fifth share , which the other one joyfully acquired , Is left over , I think , for he will shine forth with an honour of his own : He himself will create a tribe and a lineage with his pious virtue … |
| 14 | Lastly , after government , the administration , military and judiciary , a fifth element of the system can be identified which Miliband ( 1969 ) calls the various units of sub-government — in a sense the extension of central government but also a voice of the periphery , and thus a channel of communication between the two . |
| 15 | Ancient cosmology refers to the ether , a fifth element filling all space , and conceived as a purer form of fire or air . |
| 16 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 17 | So too , to a greater or lesser degree , does a fifth element of the state system , namely the various units of sub-central government . |
| 18 | After giving details of the first four murders , Mr John said : ‘ There has been a fifth development , a murder in south London , which bears features similar to the others we are investigating . ’ |
| 19 | A fifth factor favouring an increase in business for search firms was the spread of American multinationals overseas . |
| 20 | Advanced Micro will have a fifth generation microprocessor on the market in 1995 , and other areas were also performing well , with strong sales in non-volatile Flash memory products , where he expected revenues to jump to $200m in 1993 from $45m in 1992 . |
| 21 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 22 | A fifth guerrilla , Kunio Bando , was exchanged in 1977 for passengers of a Japan Airlines plane hijacked by members of the Lebanon-based Japanese Red Army . |
| 23 | She joined this congregation in 1650 and became a Fifth Monarchist in 1652 . |
| 24 | If funding permits , a fifth hole will be drilled to complete the sampling of the upper extrusives . |
| 25 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 26 | Neil Jenkins started the early points rush with a fifth minute penalty , and then converted two tries in the space of two minutes . |
| 27 | There was a deep reserve of ability to be tapped , and ( whatever the improvement ) only 45 per cent of all fifteen-year-olds — including , of course , those in grammar schools — stayed on at school for a fifth year or more . |
| 28 | On a fifth occasion the appellant approached a woman who was walking to work , grabbed her breast , but walked off when she pulled away . |
| 29 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 30 | Radical changes to this pattern are contained in the Proposal for a Fifth Company Law Directive , in terms of both board structure and employee participation . |