Example sentences of "[conj] three [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This will make it extremely hard for some players to get more than two or three of the 11 games in Australia — and that would not be long enough to evaluate the newcomers ' test qualifications .
2 This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited .
3 It is also interesting that three of the four responses from Jane which overlap with Brenda 's talk in this turn exactly correspond to the points where she switches code .
4 The fact that three of the six sectors were nationalized — coal , electricity and railways — helped .
5 They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids .
6 For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ .
7 The driver , Brian Smillie , 33 , of Thornbridge Road , Glasgow , and three of the six passengers , all from Glasgow , were detained in Monklands General Hospital .
8 But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade .
9 All three subjects with a tachygastria ( patients 1 , 2 , and 3 ) had a proven neuropathy of the myenteric plexus whereas three of the five patients with a continuously irregular frequency of the electrical control activity had clear evidence of a myopathy of the muscle coats on ultrastructural studies .
10 ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure .
11 One of the longest trials in English criminal history ended on Aug. 28 , after 107 days in court , when three of the four defendants in the so-called Guinness scandal case were given prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court , following their conviction on 28 charges relating to an illegal share support scheme involving more than £15,000,000 of covert payments .
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