Example sentences of "[noun] had been [verb] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 2 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 3 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 4 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 5 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 6 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |
| 7 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |
| 8 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 9 | The long running teachers ' dispute which began in November 1984 was to some extent a response to the way the education service had been handled by three successive governments . |
| 10 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 11 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 12 | On one occasion , he noted that curtains had been put between three of the beds in the aged women 's ward , and thought this undesirable for several reasons — having reference to cleanliness and ventilation . |
| 13 | An ayatollah had been released from three years " detention and mobs took to the streets to celebrate . |
| 14 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 15 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 16 | They found that the mammals had been separated into three groups . |
| 17 | It was the first time in the tournament Graf had been extended to three sets , and the seven games Sabatini won in the second set were just one fewer than Graf had conceded in her four previous rounds . |
| 18 | In the previous week Jewish graves in three cemeteries in Stockholm had been desecrated on three successive nights . |
| 19 | Traditionally the criminal work in the busy city magistrates ' courts had been dominated by three firms . |
| 20 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 21 | He was about to give the order to advance when news reached him that his wife and five-year-old son had been abducted by three masked men outside their apartment in New York . |