Example sentences of "in the [adj] three [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | In the following three chapters I will be examining their significance in three broad contexts : family and community ; the social divisions brought about by age , class , race and gender ; and the criminal justice system and crime control policy . |
2 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
3 | In the next three chapters we shall look at deserted villages , where recent studies began , and surviving villages , which are the subject of renewed and vigorous interest . |
4 | In the next three chapters we look more closely at the texture of essay-writing . |
5 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
6 | If we 're moving to London in the next three months there 's not much time to get the question of the cottage settled . |
7 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
8 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
9 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
10 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
11 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
12 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
13 | He added : ‘ In the past three weeks there has been a positive feeling after our performance against Norway . ’ |
14 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
15 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
16 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
17 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
18 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
19 | ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten . |
20 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
21 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
22 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
23 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
24 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |