Example sentences of "the [num ord] in [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 2 | Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott , the second in six months . |
| 3 | However , the issue was not settled and following a rating revaluation in Scotland , which caused much unrest , a further inquiry ( the fourth in fifteen years ) began , which resulted in the 1986 Green Paper , Paying for Local Government . |
| 4 | Thus Scargill was reluctant to go for a third national ballot under his leadership , and the fourth in four years . |
| 5 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 6 | President Yoweri Museveni on Oct. 15 ended a three-day state visit to India , the first in 11 years . |
| 7 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 8 | Colin Allister set up both goals , the first in 14 minutes converted by McGladdery , and the second just 30 seconds from time by schoolboy Lee Tumilty . |
| 9 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 10 | CADW , the organisation responsible for historic monuments in Wales , is to carry out a new survey of listed buildings in Holyhead the first in 43 years . |
| 11 | The first in ten minutes , was a blatant error by the officials Neil Williams was well on-side when he picked up a pass before scoring . |
| 12 | A further referendum on the compact of free association with the USA , the seventh in nine years , was held in February 1990 , but delivered a " yes " vote of only 59.8 per cent , the lowest thus far recorded [ see p. 37251 ] . |
| 13 | The attack is the third in two days on London temples since clashes between Hindus and Moslems erupted in India . |
| 14 | November 17 was also held responsible for a bomb attack on a tax office on Nov. 30 ( the third in two weeks ) , coinciding with the presentation of the budget in parliament . |