The phrase "and the third held" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing multiple items or options, and you want to specify that the third one was maintained or retained.
Example: "The first option was rejected, the second was modified, and the third held firm despite the changes."
Alternatives: "and the third remained" or "and the third persisted".
It is the 26th edition of the Mind & Life Conference and the first held in a monastery, for thousands of Buddhist monks gathered here.
The first match was won 22 0, and the second – held on 20 July – was expected to be another comfortable victory for the Natives.
It was the fifth election held in South Africa under conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994, and also the first held since the death of Nelson Mandela.
The first is the open or public area, containing information known by one's self and by others, the second a blind area, visible to others but not to one's self, the third is the hidden area, known to the individual but not to the outside, and the fourth holds the unknown, information that neither the self nor others perceive.
Most boycotted the August 1992 elections (the first held since 1972) and did so again in 1996.
Three of the prisoners hold private sector jobs, and the fourth holds dual US-Yemini citizenship.
The annual campaign, which originated in the US and was first held in the UK last year, encourages consumers to support small shops and businesses in their community.
The second equality holds when the channel is output symmetric such that, and the third equality holds when the received messages satisfy the consistency condition (also known as the symmetry condition): [11].
One was held at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. on October 17 , 1982 and the second was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum a day later.
And the third floor holds racks jammed with satin gowns bedecked with lace and dapper suits in long-abandoned styles.
