Example sentences of "[conj] three [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
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| 3 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
| 4 | And probably it was cold weather they would have two or three coats er you know . |
| 5 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 6 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 7 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 8 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 9 | Microvitec hopes to sell 5,000 units by end of the year and predicts 50% of ASCI/ANSI terminals sold will be Alpha-based in two or three year 's time . |
| 10 | It is most commonly apparent where staff are employed to provide night cover only and therefore contracted to work specific hours to provide one , two or three night 's cover per week . |
| 11 | Yeah erm There are two or three things er that erm we are essential for us to find out when people phone in . |
| 12 | But let's just notice two or three things i in this particular interview . |
| 13 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 14 | And there are some people actually on the beach as well , which I think is important because we 've got a lot of empty area here , fairly featureless area , but it 's nice to have these two or three people er dotted around on the beach . |
| 15 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 16 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 17 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 18 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 19 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 20 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 21 | more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden |
| 22 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 23 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 24 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 25 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 26 | The proportion saying they decided ‘ during the last few days ’ is nearly one in seven of all who voted on Thursday , and double the 1987 figure : 198319871992 Decided a long time ago788173 Two or three weeks ago141213 During the last few days 8 714 |
| 27 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 28 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 29 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |
| 30 | And in two or three days ' time … |