Example sentences of "in three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In three hardnesses , 92a=blue , 95a=red , 98a=white . |
| 2 | A survey conducted in three Edinburgh secondary schools revealed that a high percentage of boys who were interviewed thought that levels of violence perpetrated against women were acceptable . |
| 3 | Our own work found that one in three managers appeared to go through a sense of crisis in their late thirties . |
| 4 | Recent research has shown that one in three managers and supervisors suffer from stress related symptoms and 75 per cent of loss working hours are due to illnesses resulting from stress . |
| 5 | Hammersmith 's auditor has argued in three courts that the deals are not enforceable , since councils had no power in law to engage in such deals . |
| 6 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 7 | The move has its origins in three phenomena . |
| 8 | In three studies , pancreatitis was induced chamically , and in one by ligature of the pancreatic duct — a model that is probably more analogous to ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 9 | Kessler and McLeod also found plausible evidence in three studies that the buffering effects of emotional support might be at least as important in circumstances of chronic strain as for people facing the acute stress of major events . |
| 10 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 11 | ‘ every contract sufficient to make a lease for years ought to have certainty in three limitations , viz. in the commencement of the term , in the continuance of it , and in the end of it ; so that all these ought to be known at the commencement of the lease , and words in a lease , which do n't make this appear , are but babble … |
| 12 | But the wind sweeping in from the sea even got to him , with the Open Champion dropping four shots in three holes , including a double bogey five at the treacherous 15th . |
| 13 | His interest was particularly in chemical investigations ; he devoted special attention to the chemical analysis of vegetable substances , his findings on which were published in three articles in Philosophical Transactions in 1674 . |
| 14 | Each subject participated in three experiments performed in random order , with an interval of at least seven days between each . |
| 15 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 16 | The idea is that quarks come in three colors — red , green , and blue — ; but that any isolated bound state , such as a hadron , has to be colorless , either a combination of red , green , and blue like the proton , or a mixture of red and antired , green and antigreen , and blue and antiblue , like the pi meson . |
| 17 | IBM mainframes were made in three locations in the world — Poughkeepsie in New York State , Yasu in Japan and Montpellier in France : |
| 18 | Carefully not clinking the bottles , Maxim mixed himself a whisky and water , drank it in three gulps , then poured another and began sipping . |
| 19 | The 28-year-old , whose interest in running began when he represented his school as a teenage athlete , has competed in three Potteries Marathons clocking up his best time of three hours and two minutes . |
| 20 | Many Jews and Moslems have accused Christians of being in reality polytheists , arguing that the Christian Trinity in reality represents a belief in three gods rather than one . |
| 21 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 22 | One in three students is more than £500 in debt . |
| 23 | In some countries as many as one child in three dies before reaching the age of five . |
| 24 | Even among men diagnosed as having clinical prostate cancer only one in three dies of the disease . |
| 25 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 26 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 27 | Now , with just one win in three matches , a close-run thing against Castleford reserves , opinions are hardening . |
| 28 | Last week there I was moaning about just two fish in three matches and this week I had more than 200 in two outings . |
| 29 | Lee Hurst had just delivered City 's first shot on target when Cantona scored United 's third from the penalty spot after 65 minutes , his third in three matches . |
| 30 | Fly-half Adrian Davies topped 50 League points in three matches with a try , two penalties and four conversions . |