Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Way then leads to Langstrothdale over to Oughtershaw and carries on to cross a section of the Pennine Way , giving fine views of the Three Peaks en route . |
| 2 | Application there have been three meetings er those meetings those . |
| 3 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 4 | Today the three groups ' future no longer looks so bright . |
| 5 | The three groups ' stated support for the conference aroused high hopes , and on March 14 Amos Sawyer , interim president installed by the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) standing mediation committee , called in a broadcast for " magnanimity of spirit " and a national reconciliation . |
| 6 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 7 | At last , came the joyful day when the holes were carefully bored into the three Scouts ' dorsal flesh in the Apothacarion , and through their subcutaneous carapaces which were now fully fledged … |
| 8 | So two addition equations er three times se seven plus seven plus seven is twenty one . |
| 9 | Bottom the previous season , Albion finished ninth of 12 in the Wearside League second division , Billy Harker top scoring with 15 of which one , reputedly , was a penalty that bounced three times en route . |
| 10 | No it , it they hang on three chains er and er |
| 11 | Well , er , it shows three hours erm , every morning cold calling . |
| 12 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 13 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 14 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 15 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 16 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 17 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 18 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 19 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
| 20 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
| 21 | Anna checked her stocklist for the shelf allocation for the poppadoms ( plain , spiced , garlic and chilli , ready-cooked ) with all the slick professionalism of three hours ' experience . |
| 22 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 23 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 24 | Juniors must be paid appropriately for the hours that they work : if they are getting only three hours ' rest at night they are working the equivalent of a partial shift and should be paid accordingly . |
| 25 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 26 | The next morning , three hours ' sailing away from the Isle of Pines , the ship received a cable : permission to disembark had not yet been confirmed . |
| 27 | Three hours ' extremely cold and tedious observation had been ruined by the sudden flash of this light several years earlier . |
| 28 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 29 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 30 | is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours . |