Example sentences of "was the sixth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 2 | Last Thursday was the sixth general election in a row in which Labour failed to win the support of 40 per cent of voters . |
| 3 | This was the sixth general election in a row in which Labour failed to win the support of 40 per cent of voters . |
| 4 | Charles Tennant ( 1768–1838 ) was the sixth son of old John Tennant and could not be employed on Glenconner Farm . |
| 5 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |
| 6 | By a cruel irony , it was the sixth anniversary of their engagement . |
| 7 | He was the sixth Briton to receive the award — Kipling , Tagore , Yeats , Shaw and Galsworthy were his predecessors . |
| 8 | He was the sixth child of working-class parents , Daniel Maclean , crofter and later potter , and his wife Annie McPhee , the grandson on one side of crofters evicted from Mull in the Highland clearances , on the other of migrants to industrial Strathclyde . |
| 9 | She worked with groups of college undergraduates who were asked to write four-minute stories in response to several verbal cues , of which the following was the sixth , |
| 10 | Anti-racist campaigners say Ashiq was the sixth racist murder victim this year . |
| 11 | It was the sixth time in a year he 'd been a victim of crime , but this time the culprits , two youths , had been arrested . |
| 12 | Public disenchantment with the fruits of democratization , and voter fatigue ( the second round on Oct. 14 was the sixth nationwide ballot in less than a year ) , were blamed for widespread apathy towards the elections . |
| 13 | He was the sixth judge to be rejected by the judiciary committee during the past decade . |
| 14 | The Croatian Defence Minister , Martin Spegelj , was the sixth accused but Croatia had refused to hand him over to the JNA . |
| 15 | This was the sixth IMF loan to Argentina since 1983 , a level of support which recognized the move away from traditional state-led economic policies and support of the welfare state in favour of austerity , tight fiscal control and an ambitious privatization programme [ see pp. 37500 ; 37529 ; 37608 ; 37710 ; 37773 ; 38096 ; 38003 ] . |
| 16 | It was the sixth formal meeting between Vietnam and the USA since August 1990 . |
| 17 | I think it was the sixth of September . |