Example sentences of "three [noun pl] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 2 | Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie . |
| 3 | Stand-in goalkeeper Graham Mitchell was only called into action three times in the second half , but on two of those occasions he was collecting the ball from the net behind him . |
| 4 | Egypt revolted from Persia three times in the fifth century , proving that these Greek and Jewish garrisons were needed . |
| 5 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |
| 6 | His crisp jabbing had Gary Newton of Teams instantly on the defensive , and Exley followed up with tremendous hooks that had Newton down three times in the first round before the referee stepped in . |
| 7 | Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie . |
| 8 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 9 | Students study three subjects in the first year , after which they may continue with one of these subjects for an honours degree . |
| 10 | Students take three subjects in the first year and in subsequent years continue with two of these subjects either as joint or major/minor options for the honours degree . |
| 11 | In Wales and Northern Ireland too , three subjects in the first year is common outside professional degree subjects such as law and engineering . |
| 12 | If this help is given it will be for three months in the first instance and the position will be reviewed from time to time after that . |
| 13 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 14 | Patience rewarded Nowhere are Yorkshire 's technical shortcomings more recognisable than with Sharp , recalled after three centuries in the second team . |
| 15 | The 31-year-old Ulsterman , who was the leading Briton in the Open at Troon last July , had a 10-under-par 62 to lead by three strokes in the first round from the American , Davis Love III . |
| 16 | We divide throughout by the last element to obtain as our new starting column unc then the iterations , using ( 3 ) at each step , begin unc We postmultiply A ( ignoring its top row ) by the column ( 4 ) to get the column of three numbers on the right ; divide by the last element to get the bottom three elements in the next column , and find the top element from ( 3 ) . |
| 17 | THE TOP three finishers in the First Division took a firm step towards the Carlsberg play-offs at Wembley Arena in May with comfortable away wins in the first round of the best-of-three quarter-final series . |
| 18 | Brannen , who resigned from Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers before Christmas , had to abort an attempt to achieve the qualifying points score in Maryland , USA , two weeks ago when he registered three fouls in the second discipline , the long jump . |
| 19 | Three phases in the first lesson were as follows : |
| 20 | Appointment will be on the Lecturer Grade B scale ; £16,014–£20,469 p.a. ( under review ) for three years in the first instance . |
| 21 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 22 | Davis , after dropping three strokes on the last three holes in the third round , promptly dropped three more on the opening three holes of his final round . |
| 23 | He says he will be faithful , that he loves only me , but I know he has had three affairs in the last year . |
| 24 | He says he will be faithful , that he loves only me , but I know he has had three affairs in the last year . |
| 25 | The Feast of Trumpets : first of three festivals in the seventh month ( September/October ) ; the others being |
| 26 | TWO MPs are seeking a full investigation into the staffing levels and quality of supervision at a psychiatric hospital in Glasgow after the death of three patients in the last year . |
| 27 | Another winner of its three heats , Watabid ( 10 metres ) also faces a stiff challenge against one of the remaining back markers , Ah Jaycee , which wears the stripes and receives three metres in the first semi-final tonight . |
| 28 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 29 | Coming on as a second-half substitute after two years out with an elbow injury , Montana led the San Francisco 49ers to three scores in the fourth quarter to clinch a 24-6 victory over the Detroit Lions . |
| 30 | The presence of three commas in the second line help demonstrate just how little life there is by breaking up the sentence . |