Example sentences of "in three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did not criticise Wright but there is no doubt that his Test chances suffered by hooking with the Scot in three matches . |
| 32 | Dykstra started the season behind Billy Thomson in the pecking order at Fir Park , but even though the former Dundee United man was recalled for a game after Dykstra let in ten goals in three matches , the roles have now been reversed . |
| 33 | On a brighter note for Hibs — this was the Easter Road side 's first point in three matches — 20-year-old Steven Tweed , playing only his second game for the club , produced a solid performance alongside the impressive Gordon Hunter in the centre of the defence , while another youngster , 22-year-old David Farrell , also earned praise from Miller for succeeding in keeping the evergreen Davie Cooper relatively quiet . |
| 34 | There was little effect of cyclysation of the amino groups , but the further addition of an intercalator resulted in three responses : a time-dependent increase of the blocked transcript by one and three nucleotides ; a reduction of the sequence selectivity of platination ; a decrease of apparent interstrand crosslinking for these derivatives with a pendant intercalator tethered to the amino moiety of cisplatin . |
| 35 | The XPC can be added to existing 2200s without any modification to existing application programs and will come in three implementations . |
| 36 | By the year 2000 , the Government wants to see one in three school leavers entering a university or college . |
| 37 | One in three women over the age of 80 at some time have a fracture of the hip . |
| 38 | Absolutely , says one in three women who took part in our Gallup survey to discover the stresses and strains of juggling it all and how women deal with them . |
| 39 | Because one in three women in Britain have fine flyaway hair , we 've introduced new Wella Balsam Hair Restructurant . |
| 40 | Well it 's it works best with people who =r mildly depressed in fact , l less so with very severely depressed people , but that is the great majority of people , one in three women with children under the age of five are depressed , for example , so it 's a huge advantage for them to be able to take it and not have side effects . |
| 41 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |
| 42 | We left in three flights , each led by a Fulmar for navigational purposes , some 500 nautical miles from Malta ( my logbook shows the flight took three hours and 20 minutes ) . |
| 43 | This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel . |
| 44 | In three instances the reason for unemployment was not given . |
| 45 | The fast-acting tranquillizing drug already used in three instances of doping has been found in another racehorse . |
| 46 | BIDDY is a housewife with a vacuous expression , a public school education and a very rich Greek husband , in Three Birds Alighting On A Field ( Royal Court ) . |
| 47 | Subsequently , he had wide general management experience in three ICI divisions , becoming chairman of ICI Fibres , a main board director , personnel director and deputy chairman . |
| 48 | Some staff have taken part in three ICI group-wide projects — a one-day Environmental Focus programme , a new Environmental Values package and a one-day conference at Runcorn organised for senior representatives from ICI 's business teams . |
| 49 | In Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 ) , the Roman backgrounds are the whole point of the story , not just for the audience but also for the Romanian-born director Jean Negulesco ( Romanian is the only Latin language of Eastern Europe ) and , most important , for the three American girls ( Dorothy McGuire , Jean Peters , and Maggie McNamara ) who throw coins in the massively theatrical Trevi fountain in the hope of romance rather than simply of returning to Rome — which , indeed , gave its very name to romance . |
| 50 | The experience so thrilled her that she decided to make a career of it , and by the age of 10 she had performed in three Broadway shows . |
| 51 | The men , rooted to the ground in three feet of fresh snow , had been unable to move quickly enough , and the boar , finding its retreat blocked , had gone crazy and attacked indiscriminately . |
| 52 | Overall , 53 subjects ( 29.3% ) achieved independence in at least one activity : 36 ( 19.9% ) achieved independence in three activities , 12 ( 6.6% ) in two , and five ( 2.8% ) in one . |
| 53 | However , E. F. Mott , Director of Education in Liverpool ( whose children were so resented in North Wales ) , found the proportion of verminous children in three Liverpool schools in poor areas to be 18% , 18% ( after inspection ) and 30% ( an estimate ) . |
| 54 | This year came Ella to Britain , with his three sons , Clymen and Wlenking , and Cissa , in three ships ; landing at a place that is called Clymenshore . |
| 55 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 56 | Steve McMahon , who figured in three title triumphs at Liverpool , admitted to being unsure of what role he was supposed to play in determining the destiny of this season 's major prize . |
| 57 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 58 | In 1881 as many as one in three girls aged between fifteen and twenty had entered domestic service . |
| 59 | Victories in three primaries , including the battle of New York , were a turning point that have given the Arkansas governor an unassailable lead in delegates needed for the Democrats ' presidential nomination . |
| 60 | I suppose the way to stop it sounding like a complete mess lies in three things : the way you play it , the exact part you play , and the sound itself . |