Sentence examples for contributed to the third from inspiring English sources

Hardly surprising, given his record as Tory health spokesman until the emollient Andrew Lansley – now the health secretary – was given the job in 2005 of ditching the unhelpful "patients' passport" policy for the NHS, which is generally thought to have contributed to the third Tory defeat.

In Namibia, Eline's rainfall contributed to the third wettest summer in 50 years, as well as the wettest since 1976.

Further, they hypothesized that genetic drift played a key role in the first two processes and natural selection contributed to the third.

The Nurses Health Studyy breast cancer nested case-control study contributed to the third stage of this genome-wide association study.

FKV under supervision by TRC and JW wrote the application for the data, managed the data, undertook the analysis, wrote the first draft, and contributed to the third and all subsequent drafts.

Members of the task force who contributed to the third U.S. EPA health document, in addition to John Buckley and Kenneth Bridbord, included Douglas Hammer, Robert Horton, Marty Kanarek, Wellington Moore, Magnus Piscator, Lawrence Plumlee, Steven Reznek, Richard Rhoden, and Jerry Stara (U.S. EPA 1973c).

We contributed to the first interferon marketed for human use.

The increase contributed to the first quarterly expansion in 18 months during the April-June period.

This contributed to the first rise in positives for overall drug testing since 2003.

His comment may have contributed to the first rise in the benchmark Nikkei stock index in five sessions.

A string of acquisitions and spending on new services contributed to the first loss in the company's history.