How to Use in/of the order of in a Sentence

in/of the order of

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  • A lot of the fun of it is in the order of the successive images.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Visits with the puppies will begin at 11 a.m. in the order of sign-up.
    Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In His Kiss)—is the subject of his or her own novel, although the books should not be read in the order of their births.
    Time, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will line up in a row in the order of their distance from the sun.
    Ebony Williams, ajc, 13 June 2022
  • All of the clips of the winners been released over the last seven days, in the order of their presentation.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 May 2022
  • Spotify is the latest tech firm to announce job cuts, this time in the order of more than 1,500 roles.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • At the time of his birth, James was eighth in the order of succession, just in front of his older sister, Lady Louise.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 10 June 2022
  • When Princess Charlotte's younger brother, Prince Louis, was born in 2018, she was not bumped down in the order of succession.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Some stars move much faster, and a few have huge velocities, of the order of 1000 kilometers per second.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • According to Radio Times, the best order to watch the films is in the order of release to experience the films as the original fans did.
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Everything pretty much moves forward in time — no prequels or reboots — so the best way to watch them all is in the order of their release.
    Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Attackers then plug the lists into rigs that contain dozens of super-fast GPUs that try each word in the order of popularity of each string.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Despite leaving royal duties, Harry’s place in the order of succession to the throne remains.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
  • For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities.
    Jamey Keaten, ajc, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The mixed-gender team competition takes place on the normal hill (the smaller of the two Olympic ski jump hills with a 98-meter takeoff) and includes four athletes who jump in the order of woman, man, woman, man.
    Taylor Dutch, SELF, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Something in the order of 328 million terabytes of data are being created every single day (that’s a lot of zeros).
    Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But making improvements through bond funding, grants and help from environmental groups is not as simple as going down the index list in the order of need.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • On Thursday, President Biden proposed a surprise change in the order of state presidential primaries.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That switch in the order of events related to liability is comparable to the difference between opt-in and opt-out in privacy.
    Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Because her mother is heir apparent, Estelle is currently second in the order of succession.
    Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • The first is financial: The investment necessary to start such a program is very large, in the order of billions of dollars just for salaries, without accounting for the necessary training and administrative costs.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2023
  • So there are certain mechanical operations which require feedback loops of the order of milliseconds or tens of milliseconds.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Going forward, the White House plans to focus on selling the bipartisan bill instead of getting involved in the order of when Biden receives the legislation, letting Democratic leadership handle the timeline.
    Kevin Liptak, CNN, 26 June 2021
  • The order of buying tickets for football games will be determined by groups in the order of parents of participating students starting Sunday and Monday, past season ticket owners on Tuesday and the general public from Wednesday until gameday.
    Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020

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