Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said a troubadour needs only three things , an instrument , a horse , and a lady love , and the first she desired to give me , and the other two I must find for myself . |
| 2 | Two days later a figurehead president , Mr Johan Kraag , was sworn in with , as prime minister , Jules Wijdenbosch , leader of Mr Bouterse 's party ( which has only three seats in the 51-seat national assembly ) . |
| 3 | When a film has only three minutes to sell itself , at least you can be sure it 's not going to waste time trying to sell you anything else . |
| 4 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says the Ministry now has only three months to find the person responsible and mount a prosecution . |
| 5 | ‘ Indirect ’ has four pipes , though sometimes it has only three , when the balance tank in the roof is combined with the storage tank , or when an ancient ‘ primatic ’ cylinder has been fitted . |
| 6 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 7 | The multimedia pavilion on the ground floor has only three of the 15 stands available . |
| 8 | The vector product a ∘ b is also a tensor of second rank but behaves like a vector ( sometimes called a pseudo-vector ) because it has only three non-vanishing components . |
| 9 | The transistor bridge bipolar drive circuit requires four transistor/diode pairs per phase , whereas the simple unipolar drive requires only one pair per phase , so drive costs for a hybrid stepping motor are potentially higher than for the variable-reluctance type ; a two-phase hybrid motor drive has eight transistors and diodes , but a three-phase variable-reluctance motor drive has only three transistors and diodes . |
| 10 | The average Brazilian adult has only three years schooling and 26 per cent are illiterate ( literacy being defined by the ability to sign one 's name ) . |
| 11 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 12 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 13 | To illustrate the construction of a price index , suppose that we have selected an appropriate basket of goods and that , for simplicity , it contains only three items : bread , milk and eggs . |
| 14 | Roberts , who now needs just three winners to reach 150 for the season , is 22 ahead of Pat Eddery in the jockeys ' title race . |
| 15 | They ran out of patience with £2.1 million record signing Fleck , who has just three goals all season , and sang ‘ What a load of rubbish ’ . |
| 16 | Only Royale , winner of the Yorkshire Oaks , has just three rivals Modhish , Vert Amande and Dariyoun in the Prix Foy . |
| 17 | The ancient village of Sutton in Holderness lies about three miles from the city of Kingston upon Hull . |
| 18 | This church stands about three miles from Ravenna at Classe ( Classis ) which was the port for the city in the days of Imperial Rome . |
| 19 | It probably covers about three hundred acres , and that serves world demand for , for one , for one car . |
| 20 | He already has about three quarters of the membership on his computer database of members ' electronic expertise , so the amount of extra work will not be too great , but it will be a considerable relief to me . |
| 21 | ( Incidentally , Olwyn has about three cups of orange juice each evening : refusing this is a sure way to produce a tantrum ) . |
| 22 | Mr Baber has about three hundred plum trees on his farm . |
| 23 | ( This method of counting courses assumes that the same HNC on offer in three different centres counts as three available courses . ) |
| 24 | The court has now three divisions : a Queen 's Bench Division , a Chancery Division , and a Family Division ( successor to the probate , Divorce , and Admiralty Division , of which something will be said in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 25 | And a SOCIALIST who presides over three million unemployed deserves to be . |
| 26 | At the moment , nuclear power contributes approximately three percent to our national consumption of fuels , a small figure and even if we multiplied it tenfold that would be thirty percent . |
| 27 | For each row the length of weaving yarn used is only the width of the knitting , whereas a knitted row uses approximately three times the width of the knitting . |
| 28 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
| 29 | But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain . |
| 30 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |