Example sentences of "only three [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It has agreed that , because of international players ' commitments , only three of the eight ties will be played on that date , with the others in the following four weeks . |
2 | On the contrary , only three of the 10 patients without ascites had an hepatic venous pressure gradient above 12 mm Hg ( p<0.02 ) . |
3 | Progression of the gastrinoma was found in only three of the five patients . |
4 | Moreover , we have included only three of the four sections of our " checklist " presented in section 3.1 ( p75–80 ) . |
5 | With weather conditions on the appointed day predicted to be very severe — including gales likely to cause structural damage to buildings — only three of the six teams managed to participate . |
6 | In only three of the 16 patients did the gastric and oesophageal findings disagree . |
7 | The Minister will be aware that , with the exception of the MOD vessel , only three of the 11 ships now on order at Harland and Wolff are United Kingdom registered and owned . |
8 | Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years . |
9 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
10 | Only three of the eleven members were peasants . |
11 | Only three of the twenty-six hands at the Sheffield works ( commissioned c . |
12 | Only three of the 20 homes in his street had escaped the burglars and the wreckers . |
13 | The PAN disputed the results after being awarded only three of the 20 seats in the Sinaloa Chamber of Deputies , and accused electoral officials of failing to recognize the victory of its candidate for mayor in Mazatlán . |
14 | Only three of the 87 academics promoted to the posts of professor or reader since 1990 have been women . |
15 | They won only three of the 15 races although they held their own until just past the halfway stage . |
16 | The Seychelles fody is also a very rare bird , being confined to only three of the smaller islands in the Seychelles group . |
17 | And though the new government came to power threatening to precipitate a European crisis over a detested farm deal that had been negotiated between America and the EC , only three of the 29 ministers of the new government are anti-Maastricht . |
18 | Any child whose weight is on or below the third centile ( i.e. only three in every hundred children will be this weight at this age ) is very seriously underweight . |