Example sentences of "[verb] three [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filling three of the six slots were some interesting cards . |
| 2 | With this story too came the added responsibility of co-directorship , Christopher Barry sharing his task with ex-Theatre Director Richard Martin who was scheduled to shoot three of the seven episodes . |
| 3 | I 've now done three of the five stages . |
| 4 | ( A team-mate on that occasion was Alex Jackson , Chapman 's last sign at Huddersfield , who scored three of the five goals . ) |
| 5 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 6 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 7 | They had found three of the four sacks of potatoes stolen in the gipsies ' camp on Rickling Heath , and one bag of oats , but no trace of the pony . |
| 8 | So , as the two of us progressed , ascending , cresting and then descending three of the seven hills , Mr Broadhurst talked . |
| 9 | Recently , successful attempts have been made to unify three of the four categories of force and I shall describe these in this chapter . |
| 10 | The UDH won 11 seats and other " liberal " groupings three , while the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation ( LDF ) won three of the seven seats it contested , pro-Beijing groups won two , and the remainder went to independents . |
| 11 | The party was too poor to pay the electric light bill and their parliamentary wing , Komin Kochin , only won three of the 132 seats in the legislature . |
| 12 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |