(1) Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
(2) Quick march! (= the order to start marching)
(3) They marched 20 miles to reach the capital.

(1) The baby was only a few hours old.
(2) In those days most people left school when they were only fifteen years old.
(3) At thirty years old, he was already earning £40 000 a year.

(1) He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
(2) This church was built in the eleventh century.
(3) He arrived there at the eleventh hour.

(1) That may or may not be true.
(2) We may have some rain today...
(3) Rates may rise, but it won't be by much and it won't be for long...

(1) In july 1957, we were married in New York.
(2) "Eat before july 14" was stamped on the label.
(3) Execution by lethal injection is scheduled for july 30th.

(1) jeff had shopped extravagantly for presents for the whole family.
(2) jeff leaned back and pulled on his cigarette.
(3) jeff played intramural basketball in high school.

(1) leila kept smiling her outrageously cute smile.
(2) Buffett was born leila Buffett on August 30 , 1930 , in Omaha, Nebraska.
(3) One night, leila stood alone in the garden, watching the sky.

(1) how old are you now?
(2) how old is your son now?
(3) how old was the baby when it began to find his feet?

(1) The interior of the shop still retains a nineteenth-century atmosphere.
(2) The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in ship design and propulsion.
(3) Such disputes multiplied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

(1) pop/dance/classical/church music
(2) to listen to music
(3) She could hear music playing somewhere.

(1) an art gallery/exhibition
(2) a collection of art and antiques
(3) She's good at art and design.

(1) This is the second time it's happened.
(2) Italy scored a second goal just after half-time.
(3) the second of June/June 2nd

(1) He favors extending the school day and school year.
(2) The school day is divided into seven periods.
(3) When the school day was done we would walk home together.

(1) The club has moved its meeting to Saturday, january 22nd.
(2) He arrived on january 9, disheveled and much the worse for wear.
(3) The company closed down operations and began liquidating its assets in january.

(1) Write today's date at the top of the page.
(2) We need to fix a date for the next meeting.
(3) They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.

(1) a singing contest
(2) a talent contest
(3) to enter/win/lose a contest

(1) Their lives interconnect with those of celebrated figures of the late eighteenth-century.
(2) Such disputes multiplied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
(3) We got engaged on my eighteenth birthday.

(1) By october 1990, when arrested, he was hopelessly in debt.
(2) The band have moved forward their Leeds date to october 27.
(3) The chairman of the bench adjourned the case until october 27.

(1) september is here, bringing with it a chill in the mornings.
(2) He left the company by mutual consent last september.
(3) New owners will have to wait until september before moving in.

(1) I'd have to send tina on ahead with Rachael.
(2) Painful memories were dragged up for tina during the filming.
(3) tina as a child was a replica of her mother.

(1) the Edinburgh festival
(2) the Cannes film festival
(3) a beer festival

(1) the Democratic and Republican Parties in the United States
(2) She belongs to the Labour party.
(3) the ruling/opposition party

(1) He despised william Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
(2) william joined forces with businessman Nicholas Court to launch the new vehicle.
(3) william was a man of discernment, with an eye for quality.

(1) This book is by john, Jones, et al.
(2) It's absolutely against my principles to blame people or make them feel guilty without any reason.
(3) john beat him with a stick.

(1) Dr. johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically.
(2) Their sporting reputation has suffered enormously from johnson's exposure.
(3) johnson's smashing victory in 1964 changed the political horizon substantially.

(1) Troops were sent to the islands to restore order last november.
(2) He was bailed to appear before local magistrates on 5 november.
(3) He only got a plurality on november 3rd, just 49 percent.

(1) Anne was French by birth but lived most of her life in Italy.
(2) a woman of noble birth
(3) She died shortly after giving birth.

(1) ...January the ninth.
(2) ...students in the ninth grade.
(3) In Brussels the dollar rose by a ninth of a cent...

(1) the month of August
(2) We're moving house next month .
(3) She earns $1 000 a month .

(1) ...the eighth prime minister of India.
(2) The Kuban produces an eighth of Russia's grain, meat and milk.
(3) Schools are urged to prepare more students to algebra by the eighth grade.

(1) vera pressed his shirt.
(2) It was a present from Aunt vera.
(3) Aloe vera is used in moisturisers to give them a wonderfully silky texture.

(1) The local church has traces of fifteenth-century frescoes.
(2) The castle was enlarged considerably in the fifteenth century.
(3) The palace was built in the fifteenth century.

(1) [不可数名词]to find true happiness
(2) That wasn't the happiest choice of words.
(3) He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money.

(1) He is giving the commentary on the basketball game.
(2) In the basketball game China won against the Philippines by the heavy score of 108 to 71.
(3) There was a basketball game at the Municipal Gymnasium yesterday.

(1) Happy birthday!
(2) Oliver's 13th birthday
(3) a birthday card/party/present

(1) Last year's winner Greg Lemond of the United States is in fourth place.
(2) Three-fourths of the public say they favor a national referendum on the issue.
(3) The fourth of July domestic culinary pyromania is followed by community pyrotechnics.

(1) Today is the fifth (of May).
(2) the fifth century BC
(3) It's her fifth birthday.

(1) The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.
(2) Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
(3) With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literature begins.

(1) Kenya's robert Kibe was the fastest qualifier for the 800 metres final.
(2) It seemed to me that Sir robert's arguments were nonsensical.
(3) robert lost his footing and slithered down the bank.

(1) middle age
(2) There's a big age gap between them (= a big difference in their ages).
(3) ways of calculating the age of the earth