first
/ˈfɝst/
determinercoming or happening before any other person or thing
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1. Mechanical clocks first appeared in China about 800 years ago.
2. Tab, the company's first diet soda was culled.
3. That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
4. The first part of her trip was tough.
5. And I'm going to read a poem first, an elegy called "Burial."
second
/ˈsɛkənd/
determinercoming or happening just after the first person or thing
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1. The computer system checks the rider's body movements about 100 times every second.
2. Annie stopped crying, but didn't answer for a few seconds.
3. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
4. That's a second consecutive month that sales have topped a billion dollars.
5. They terminated the both of us within about 20 seconds of each other.
third
/ˈθɝd/
determinercoming or happening right after the second person or thing
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1. If the President vetoes a law, Congress, with a two thirds vote in both houses, can override the veto.
2. - Third, website security builds brand and customer trust.
3. The logo comes third.
4. Third: Avoid strenuous outdoor activity.
5. Third, script your videos.
fourth
/ˈfɔɹθ/
determinercoming or happening just after the third person or thing
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1. "Fourths," answered the next student.
2. The illegal immigration issue was fourth.
3. Fourth, always ask questions.
4. Fourth, use callback humor.
5. Fourth, use caffeine sparingly.
fifth
/ˈfɪfθ/, /ˈfɪθ/
determinercoming or happening just after the fourth person or thing
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1. Fifths gives 2.027 again.
2. Fifth, find a community.
3. Fifth, paying too much credit card bills.
4. Fifth, choose a specific milestone.
5. Fifth: Use a respirator.
sixth
/ˈsɪksθ/
determinercoming or happening right after the fifth person or thing
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1. Rather than quarters, I do sixths.
2. So 2 thirds is 4 sixths.
3. Sixth, clutter causes mixed emotions in some people.
4. - Sixth grade is correct.
5. - You just started sixth grade?
seventh
/ˈsɛvənθ/
determinercoming or happening just after the sixth person or thing
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1. So 550 actually ranks seventh.
2. I love those seventh licks.
3. The seventh item worth its money is a tailor's ham.
4. She entered seventh grade at her own age level.
5. Duncan wants seventh shot.
eighth
/ˈeɪtθ/, /ˈeɪθ/
determinercoming or happening right after the seventh person or thing
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1. "Eighths," answered Robert.
2. They went up to the eighth floor.
3. You found the eighth button!
4. The eighth pick was a no-brainer.
5. So each quarter note has two eighth notes.
ninth
/ˈnaɪnθ/
determinercoming or happening just after the eighth person or thing
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1. My ninth tip, grow your list of healthy coping skills.
2. The ninth hallmark are sleeve straps.
3. I teach ninth grade literature.
4. Ninth point wins it.
5. - Ninth step, chew your gum loudly.
tenth
/ˈtɛnθ/
determinercoming or happening right after the ninth person or thing
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1. Remember tenth president, Sprinkles Fuzzwizard?
2. So the whole thing is 9 tenths.
3. Very few people reach the tenth level.
4. Every tenth is felt.
5. This estate has four tenths of a mile of street frontage.
eleventh
/ˈiɫɛvənθ/, /ɪˈɫɛvənθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the tenth person or thing
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1. Some months later Sara had her eleventh birthday.
2. His eleventh child, Rory, would be born six months later.
3. - I'm the eleventh woman.
4. It's an eleventh.
5. On the eleventh time, I pull the mass.
twelfth
/ˈtwɛɫfθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the eleventh person or thing
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1. Who is the twelfth imam?
2. He ate the twelfth strudel on the counter.
3. The twelfth hallmark is the through pockets.
4. November twelfth your honor.
5. I like the twelfth fret.
thirteenth
/ˈθɝˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twelfth person or thing
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1. Underwater archaeologists excavate shipwrecks and one ship at Uluburun in Turkey from the thirteenth century BCE had products on it from at least seven different states.
2. Read the Thirteenth with me.
3. so if you look at the summer thirteenth.
4. The thirteenth hallmark is leather buckles.
5. So I'm on the thirteenth floor.
fourteenth
/ˈfɔɹˈtinθ/, /ˌfɔɹˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the thirteenth person or thing
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1. Kw is equal to one point zero times 10 to the negative fourteenth.
2. By the fourteenth century, men took over the industry and formed brewing guilds.
3. These are letters that date from the fourteenth century BCE.
4. The fourteenth century was a period of consolidation for the biggest powers of Italy, especially for Milan, Venice, Florence, and the Pope, who expanded their dominions over the smaller cities.
5. By the start of the fourteenth century, fireworks appear as objects of regular entertainment in the Ilkhanate.
fifteenth
/fɪfˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the fourteenth person or thing
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1. The fifteenth came but no money had materialized.
2. The Titanic's only voyage ended in tragedy on April fifteenth, 1912.
3. Take for example August fifteenth of.
4. At last her fifteenth birthday came.
5. [laughter] and his fifteenth son was named Fifteen
sixteenth
/ˈsɪkˈstinθ/, /sɪkˈstinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the fifteenth person or thing
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1. "Sixteenths, sir," was the answer.
2. It’s the sixteenth century.
3. This is the sixteenth century.
4. This is my sixteenth.
5. You also need one sixteenth of an inch on rear tires or 1.6 millimeters.
seventeenth
/ˈsɛvənˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the sixteenth person or thing
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1. This is the seventeenth century.
2. Think about the seventeenth century.
3. In the seventeenth century some of the Cambridge Platonists, as Dr. Henry More and others, accepted the idea of rebirth.
4. It sounded like 1 seventeenth.
5. First of all, the late seventeenth century saw a decline in life expectation at birth.
eighteenth
/ˈeɪˈtinθ/, /eɪˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the seventeenth person or thing
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1. So those people in the eighteenth century made an agreement.
2. Now, in the eighteenth century, statistics are elusive.
3. The eighteenth century was essentially, at least in France, fun to live in.
4. That starts in the eighteenth century.
5. Germans first settled in North America in the eighteenth century.
nineteenth
/ˈnaɪnˈtinθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the eighteenth person or thing
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1. The nineteenth century is a period of both urban growth and urbanization.
2. The nineteenth century didn't invent consumer culture.
3. But these big-time economic changes, the nineteenth century is the crucial period in the whole thing.
4. The nineteenth century women were poorly nourished.
5. Punt-gun2Market hunters used punt guns from the nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
twentieth
/ˈtwɛniəθ/, /ˈtwɛniɪθ/, /ˈtwɛntiəθ/, /ˈtwɛntiɪθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the nineteenth person or thing
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1. And so is twentieth century social theory.
2. Engineers in the twentieth century have transformed our society.
3. But it was July twentieth.
4. The twentieth century women were well nourished.
5. And here is the twentieth century answer.
twenty-first
/ˈtwɛntiˌfɝst/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twentieth person or thing
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1. Decoding that transformation is one of the major research agendas for the twenty-first century in biology.
2. Who cares about honor in the twentieth century, twenty-first century?
3. And that will finally bring us up to Frontiers and Controversies in the twenty-first century.
4. The twenty-first century has a long way to go to decide who will be the greatest philosopher.
5. Twenty-first century could easily be 3.3, even higher percent.
twenty-second
/twˈɛntisˈɛkənd/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twenty-first person or thing
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1. They then shortened the videos to twenty-second clips.
2. They had trained interviewers rate the candidates on the same criteria, just from those twenty-second clips.
3. So this is a three minute and twenty-second fugue and we're going to listen to the whole thing, but do raise your hand when you think that fugue subject is in there.
4. In relation to the still subsisting war in Europe, my proclamation of the twenty-second of April, I793, is the index of my plan.
5. So this was the problem that he wrote to Newton, twenty-second of November.
twenty-third
/twˈɛntiθˈɜːd/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twenty-second person or thing
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1. But there's 2 to the twenty-third combinations here, because there are 23 pairs that I'm collecting from.
2. So if I can give 2 to twenty-third combinations of DNA and my wife can give 2 to the 23 combinations of DNA, then we can produce 2 to the forty-sixth combinations.
3. And I've just done a blind cheese taste test for my twenty-third birthday.
4. And let us now trace the boat picked up by the bargeman on the morning of Monday the twenty-third of June, and which was removed from the barge-office, without the cognizance of the officer in attendance, and without the rudder, at some period prior to the discovery of the corpse.
twenty-fourth
/twˈɛntifˈoːɹθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twenty-third person or thing
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1. This is the twenty-fourth lecture, note, this semester for this course.
2. They're quoting Deuteronomy 24, the twenty-fourth chapter of Deuteronomy, in the law of Moses, it says, if a man wants to divorce his wife that's fine, but what it says, he has to give her a written certificate of divorce, send her away, she's free to remarry somebody else.
3. I feel like this is the twenty-fourth lecture, I should be able to teach you something.
4. TWENTY-FOURTH EVENING Hear what the moon told me.
thirtieth
/ˈθɝtiəθ/, /ˈθɝtiɪθ/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the twenty-ninth person or thing
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1. Dr. Oliver Sacks died on August thirtieth of cancer, and we didn't want this week to pass without acknowledging what he taught us about the science of the mind.
2. That’s about a thirtieth the size of a human hair.
3. It's supposed to take 18 thirtieths of a second.
4. Well, 1.08 to the thirtieth by our rule is what?
5. The average black household has about one thirtieth the wealth of the average white household.
thirty-first
/θˈɜːɾifˈɜːst/
adjectivecoming or happening right after the thirtieth person or thing
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