It would not have mattered much if the playing had been third rate, so cool was the evening, so light the mood.
It makes me crazy once in awhile when I see us on a Google page with someone who is totally third rate.
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Sy Harding , editor of Street Smart Report, cites that last Fed tightening cycle as an illustration of a rule of thumb he calls "Three Steps and a Stumble"--the third rate hike kills the bull.
After Tuesday's Fed rate cut - its third rate cut this year - most experts believe that another UK rate cut in on the cards - although the Bank will be careful to point out that it takes decisions on the basis of the situation of the UK economy.
The default rate is only 1.5%, a third the rate experienced by a typical U.S. credit card lender.
Of the eight sides tipped pre-tournament to reach the quarter-finals and based on figures for the 12 months prior to 1 March they have both the third worst strike rate and the third worst record for losing wickets.
After Pearl Harbor some said, the United States has been reduced to a third-rate power.
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The city is filled with palazzo owners renting out dreary spaces no better than third-rate hotel rooms.
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Nearly one of three teenagers drops out of high school, the third worst rate in the country.
The third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to 1.25 percentage points.
In it, the group says that private companies "will not be allowed to cherry-pick the most profitable contracts, or provide third-rate services".
How many more celluloid panoramas of Manhattan, for example, do third-rate filmmakers need to show us before they realize we get the message?
The RBI's third successive rate cut this year takes the total reduction in policy rates since April 2012 to one and a quarter percentage points.
According to a report an Iranian doctor delivered at a recent forum here, Iran has the third highest rate of self-emulation after India and China.
Just as Watergate was not about a third-rate burglary but the subsequent cover-up, Clinton's peccadillos were not "just about sex" but about Clinton's obstruction of justice.
True, any third-rate politician can steal a policy idea to win votes, but only a first-class leader can embody the most deeply cherished values of a country.
If Dan Loeb was going to leak something to the press to juice the stock price, why would he leak it to a third-rate newspaper like the Telegraph?
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Is the United States really threatened by a third-rate economic backwater like Iran, a country that is surrounded not only by American military installations but by close American allies?
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There is no question that professors today have historically light teaching loads that often allow them to write third-rate papers, of fourth-rate importance, for fifth-rate journals that almost nobody reads.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan- Kettering reported in 2002 that a mere 4% of 698 prostate cancer patients who underwent IMRT suffered significant rectal bleeding, less than one-third the rate for older technology.
The National Pensioners Convention said the proposals "simply tinker at the edges" and that a cap "will help just 10% of those needing care, whilst the majority will be left to struggle on with a third-rate service".
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
But what Obama is proposing would actually double the capital gains tax rate to 30%, leaving America with the third highest capital gains rate in the developed world.
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Unemployment in the state has reached 6.6 percent, the third-highest rate in the country.
They "close out" that is, contest 48% of opponents' jumpers, the NBA's third-highest rate, according to Synergy Sports.
Germans in work put in an average of 1, 430 hours in 2006, the third-lowest rate in the OECD.
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Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
The city with the third lowest unemployment rate: Lincoln, Neb.
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Mr Gore is busy presenting Texas as the Appalachia of the southwest, a place where you cannot breathe without choking, where preachers carry guns while delivering sermons, and where children drop dead at a third-world rate.
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
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