Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 2 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 3 | By-elections were to be held on Aug. 9 in Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces for three undecided seats . |
| 4 | They have n't made a cavalry sortie for three weeks , even though the cannon were n't in place yet : they must be killing and curing the horses . |
| 5 | It is precisely to direct extra resources to the pensioners , about whom my right hon. Friend is rightly concerned , that we have increased income support premiums for three successive years , providing more than £300 million extra in real terms . |
| 6 | On both Tuesday mornings there will be activities sessions for three to five-year-olds . |
| 7 | As I 've said , I 've been on H R T for three years and , I have since went back to work after being on H R T I do n't think I 'm an old hag ! |
| 8 | In another , a peasant and soldier watch for three nights at the grave of a rich man and so defeat the devil 's hold on him . |
| 9 | Jon Trice-Rolph says he 's like to win a few more races … but enjoys coming out on a saturday afternoon for three or four rides |
| 10 | It was part of a strategy to thwart Strathclyde Region 's closure plans for three RC schools in the city 's south side . |
| 11 | Whilst Hennessy was talking to the soldier outside , Donaldson found a light switch for three unshaded bulbs high in the rafters . |
| 12 | That includes a broomhandle type for three months and now an old hickory-shafted one which his father gave him last weekend . |
| 13 | He rates the rush he gets from Ecstasy very highly : ‘ It 's like you 've just scored a goal in a football match for three hours . ’ |
| 14 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |
| 15 | When the fishing boat sails for three and a half hours unclear |
| 16 | A panel of households was recruited , all of which agreed to buy their tea through the research firm for three months . |
| 17 | John Wray , who 's 77 , has been a lollipop man for three years , escorting schoolchildren across Stroud Road in Gloucester . |
| 18 | On Dec. 20 the council established six free economic zones , within which businesses would be granted land rent exemptions for three years and preferential tax , customs and import-export regulations . |
| 19 | We intend to establish a schedule of quota removals for three major economies , Britain , France and Germany and measure the relative impact on their trade and balance of payments of quota removals and currency decontrol . |
| 20 | AST Research Inc cut prices for three models of its PowerExec notebook computers by up to 13% : the PowerExec 3/25SL Models 83/W and 123/W , the 4/25SL Model 203/W and the 4/25SL Color Plus Model 203/W are affected ; it also cut prices on its 66MHz and 50MHz 80486DX2-based models in the Bravo line 5% to 26% . |
| 21 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 22 | Tables 5.15 i–iii give recognition results for three different lexicons . |
| 23 | Acidic emissions from each car 's exhaust account for three dead and 30 " sick " trees over the 10-year period . |
| 24 | So John and Hazel , hello happy wedding anniversary for three years in . |
| 25 | The reason for that is that we 're putting tot total strangers on to our clients premises for three weeks . |
| 26 | The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London — brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it . |
| 27 | Sara Atkinson , 18 , had been on a life support machine for three days . |
| 28 | Last year the government turned down a more ambitious National Coal Board proposal for three mines in and around the vale . |
| 29 | Families have also suffered as a consequence of the freezing of child benefit for three years in succession and the greater emphasis being placed upon means-tested family credit . |
| 30 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |