Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] three [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |
| 2 | For the first three firms we can use the Gordon growth model ( 6.27 ) , while for the last firm we use the supernormal growth model ( 6.38 ) . |
| 3 | For the first three sentences I done , I was still with Desmond . |
| 4 | For the first three weeks you will be alternating aerobic walking with moderate walking for the first four days each week , followed by one day 's rest . |
| 5 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 6 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 7 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 8 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 9 | For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region . |
| 10 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 11 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |
| 12 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 13 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 14 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 15 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 16 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 17 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 18 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 19 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 20 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 21 | However , for the last three seasons they 've been disappointed — unless like me , they were lucky enough to chance a late holiday and hit the best powder of the season . |
| 22 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 23 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 25 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 26 | For the next three nights they 'll have to keep their heads under pillow because it 's likely to get noisier before it eases off . |
| 27 | Fill in and return the payment instruction overleaf and for the next three months you 'll receive the New Internationalist magazine absolutely free and with no obligation , plus your gifts . |
| 28 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 29 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 30 | During the past three months I have purchased from the Institute two publications . |