Example sentences of "taken three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 2 | The two men had burned away the safe door which Joyce said had taken three hours . |
| 3 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Empirical studies have taken three forms : ( a ) controlled experiments , usually observing how selected persons respond to higher benefits ( negative taxes ) ; ( b ) questionnaires based on random samples , and ( c ) econometric studies using data on how people have responded in the past to tax changes . |
| 5 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 6 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 7 | This is the game … this is the goal the Swindon fans will treasure for ever … their first win in the Premiership … it 's taken three months and sixteen games to get it … |
| 8 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 9 | We 've actually taken three measurement areas . |
| 10 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |
| 11 | We 've taken three patients to hospital . |
| 12 | She 'd had one of her headaches , taken three aspirins and popped out to telephone her sister . |
| 13 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 14 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 15 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 16 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 17 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 18 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 19 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |
| 20 | Her back was excruciating and she had also taken three paracetamol . |
| 21 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 22 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |