Example sentences of "three out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 2 | Three out of four strikes are unofficial . |
| 3 | By lunchtime he had narrowed his search down to three out of the dozens of girls missing in the London area . |
| 4 | Three out of five key appointments failed to work — two-thirds of them within a year . |
| 5 | Three out of five firms had spent nothing on training associated with new technology in the past five years . |
| 6 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 7 | Three out of every four of the population , according to a recent poll , supported him . |
| 8 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
| 9 | Since 1970 three out of five Texan speakers , and a couple of dozen other lawmakers , have been indicted . |
| 10 | Only three out of 26 aspirin bottles carried warnings against use by pregnant women . |
| 11 | Three out of ten brunettes dyed their hair blonde to compete . |
| 12 | The second problem was the influx of men trying to enter the ministry by the end of the century ; if we look at ministers actively engaged in church work in 1901 we see that three out of every ten Primitive Methodists , four out of every ten Wesleyans , five out of every ten Congregationalists and seven out of every ten Baptists had entered the ministry in the 1890s . |
| 13 | As the political leaders completed their campaigns , three out of four eve-of-poll surveys put Labour and the Tories neck and neck , pointing to the closest result for nearly 20 years . |
| 14 | Should he make it three out of four , that would set a record unmatched even by Jack Nicklaus , despite his six victories between 1963 and 1986 . |
| 15 | The survey also found that three out of five companies use contract hire because of ease of administration , while , for outright purchase , three in 10 gave this reason . |
| 16 | Car production fell by 8 p.c. , reflecting sluggish demand , but still topped 2m vehicles of which three out of five were Peugeot . |
| 17 | In Derbyshire three out of four fathers anticipated that their sons would take over . |
| 18 | Speyside had by far the highest number of farmers requesting the courses themselves — three out of every four . |
| 19 | In this connection it is relevant to note that 84 per cent of the sample had consumed alcohol prior to the commission of their current offences and three out of four of the convictions for previous offences had been drink-related . |
| 20 | ICI says that three out of 10 of its graduate intake over the past three years ( a total of about 300 ) have been female . |
| 21 | In Strathclyde alone , nearly three out of every five cases were not pursued to court , a statistic which provides ‘ considerable support for the view that a policy of mass arrests was pursued by the police in that area ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 22 | But , remember , the team is scored for the best three out of four . |
| 23 | GLCABS reject approximately one out of every six candidates who reach the formal interview , whereas the figure for Surrey and West Sussex is closer to three out of six . |
| 24 | Even at first assessment the difficulties faced by these dementia sufferers are apparent : two-thirds could not identify three coins , three out of five could not name three or four parts of a watch , and one half could not tell the time or correctly select a medicine bottle . |
| 25 | Seven out of 10 families visit a local beauty spot or attraction at least once a month , according to the research by Gallop , with three out of 10 people ‘ getting away from it all ’ as often as once a week . |
| 26 | Ribs were broken up and mostly lost , vertebrae had all their processes removed and three out of nine lost , pelves were reduced to the region of the acetabulum and one damaged beyond recognition , and five out of twelve phalanges and metapodials remained . |
| 27 | Three out of five people in the Third World have no easy access to clean water . |
| 28 | In Dwing , a village in the high Garhwal Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh , women walk at least 10 kilometres three out of four days , for an average of seven hours per day , to bring back about 25 kg of wood with each headload . |
| 29 | Three out of four break down before completing 1500 hours . |
| 30 | Statistics show that three out of four carers are women — and most of the remaining twenty-five per cent who are men are caring for a wife rather than a parent . |