Example sentences of "[v-ing] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That erm it might be wise or advisable , I 'd be interested to hear your views Colin and others perhaps even council procedures , you know on , on how far you can go in checking out er because I mean , you know you get something which tells you what was happening three weeks ago . |
| 2 | SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight . |
| 3 | Over the past eighteen months Cadbury and Save The Children have worked very successfully together , staging three strollathons sponsoring nationwide pantomimes and running a promotion on chocolate bars . |
| 4 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 5 | Business travellers in Wichita , Kansas , often save $300 by driving three hours south to Tulsa , in Oklahoma , and catching a flight to Dallas . |
| 6 | There were a few others of the same period , Youngs Mill being advertised for sale in 1828 , with a 16hp engine , driving three pairs of four foot diameter stones . |
| 7 | The treatment involved walking three times round the shore and then departing , without looking back . |
| 8 | He recalls walking three rounds a day ‘ frequently ’ at 1s. 3d. a round , plus lunch ( in the caddy shop ) and a tip when lucky . |
| 9 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who effectively handed Brian Talbot his P45 by cracking three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 10 | History lovers will be fascinated by the excavations currently taking place on the south of the island at Akrotiri — here much of the original Minoan city , dating back 3,350 years has been unearthed , revealing three storey houses , utensils and beautiful frescoes , preserved by the volcanic ash that covered the city . |
| 11 | The most common period was 30 days , occurring three times ( 33% ) . |
| 12 | George Hodgson filled the next spot , landing three fish for 1–14–0 off the waterfall swim in the Butcher 's field from Carl Aldorfer 1–9–0 . |
| 13 | After climbing three sets of stairs you arrived at two doors , with name-plates . |
| 14 | She acknowledged that ‘ cultural work must be closely combined with political tasks ’ , and went on to prove it by signing three directives on the censorship of libraries between 1920 and 1924 . |
| 15 | The Spanish arm of Alcatel NV has become the most powerful telecommunications group in China after signing three contracts worth $300m with the Peking government . |
| 16 | President Islam Karimov visited Islamabad on Aug. 13-14 , signing three protocols with Pakistan 's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif , covering the reciprocal promotion and protection of investments , co-operation in the fields of water resources , power generation , irrigation and reclamation , and co-operation in posts and telecommunica-tions . |
| 17 | On his release , he resumed his clandestine pastoral work in his diocese of Baoding , consecrating three bishops and ordaining hundreds of priests . |
| 18 | He further suggested that the fifty-six Aubrey holes could have been used as eclipse predictors , representing three cycles of the moon 's nodes , each taking 18.6 years . |
| 19 | Five superfields of the Longman Corpus were selected for investigation , and 15 documents , representing three subdomains from each of the five superfields were extracted . |
| 20 | He then explained that ‘ … what we are pronouncing are not the three names of God ( or worse still the names of three gods , as some would suggest ) but we are pronouncing three aspects or qualities of the Deity which are well-known and used , in Christianity and other religions , namely His Eternal Existence , His Transcendence and His Omnipotence . ’ |
| 21 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 22 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 23 | Last June Hinckley was found not guilty , by reason of insanity , of trying to assassinate President Reagan and of wounding three others in the attempt . |
| 24 | On May 2 Israeli air force ( IAF ) planes had attacked a Fatah base near Rashidiyah , on the outskirts of Tyre , wounding three Palestinians . |
| 25 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 26 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 27 | Mark Jones at No.8 , impressive within the legal bounds of the game , less so outside them , scored two , Paul Williams the other , with Paul Thorburn contributing three conversions . |
| 28 | This takes as its theme " " Goddes pryvetee " " : a phrase appearing three times in the Miller 's Prologue and Tale ( 3164 , 3454 , 3558 ) and recalled again when John tells his wife his so-called " " pryvetee " " in line 3603 . |
| 29 | He left Guinness in 1988 to become finance director of Cope Allman , returning three years later . |
| 30 | This chapter will , therefore , examine evacuation as an historical episode by addressing three issues : first , why the initial evacuation scheme was such a failure — and whether this failure was caused , as many middle-class observers argued , by the children 's behaviour . |