Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 2 | The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre . |
| 3 | In 1906 an adverse report by the Board of Education 's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five — hitherto the normal age for the entry of working-class children to full-time education had been three . |
| 4 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 5 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |