Sentence examples for fourteenth from inspiring English sources

In the OECD's last assessment of 15-year-olds in 41 countries, Japan remained a healthy second in science, but had fallen from first to sixth in maths and from eighth to fourteenth in reading ability.Parents are also worried about the resurgence of bullying and suicides among schoolchildren.

The fourteenth is now reaching a crunch point.Mr Yusuf heads a transitional Somali government, created with EU cash in neighbouring Kenya last year.

Shouts for independence will be timed to coincide with the seventeenth minute and fourteenth second of each half – symbolically matching the year, 1714, when Catalans lost key rights.The match also presents football-loving separatists with a quandary that neatly sums up many of the obstacles to Catalan independence.

Average living standards in China are still only a sixth and in India a fourteenth of those in America at PPP exchange rates, but the gap is already much smaller than it was and is closing fast.Moreover, the great convergence has spread beyond India and China.

The country's best-selling beer is Bud Light, a thin, insipid lager (a relative of your correspondent's once noted that the difference between Bud Light and water really starts to show after the fourteenth can).But there is a difference between selling an overtly watery beer and selling a beer that is more watery than advertised.

He reminded Washington that "the fourteenth article of the capitulation" barred reprisals.

And those of us who really are concerned about constitutional liberties will have to hope he is as ardent a defender of the first and fourteenth amendments as he is of the tenth and second.(Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, via Flickr).

Germany's stockmarket is a pigmy by rich-country standards, less than half the size of Britain's and one-fourteenth the size of America's.

From the mid-thirteenth through the mid-fourteenth century, every student who earned a baccalaureate in theology was required to lecture and comment on Peter's text.

A fourteenth-century manual for preachers, which contained lore about the natural world and is known as The Light of the Soul, ascribes a series of odd observations about nature to Archita Tharentinus, who is presumably intended to be the fourth century BCE Pythagorean, Archytas of Tarentum.

More inclined to speculative metaphysics and less skeptical of reason than Ockham, Chatton was one of the most energetic and gifted critics of the influential brand of nominalism which arose in early fourteenth-century England around Ockham.