Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORTH-EAST swimmers are competing in three important events this weekend . |
| 2 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 3 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 4 | In our selection procedure we are looking for three main characteristics . |
| 5 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 6 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 7 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 8 | It 's , I mean they 're , okay you 're applying from three different standpoints but it 's coming out of one well budgetholder 's erm kitty . |
| 9 | So reading lamp , toothbrush and three marks so we 're looking for three of them . |
| 10 | So erm on that basis if , if , if we say that er that , that you 're looking for say thirty thirty thousand a year you 're looking at three hundred , four hundred and fifty thousand say four hundred thousand life cover . |
| 11 | Nine so we 're looking at three hundred and sixty . |
| 12 | And we 're going for three hundred this year . |
| 13 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 14 | They 're coming in three times a week . |
| 15 | So you 're saying after three months the work will get |
| 16 | So you 're saying after three months you want to review it . |
| 17 | Right , we 're dealing with three questions in an exam in two hours . |
| 18 | We 're talking about three nine six G M B Parliamentary Panel Dick and I 'll just have to follow Duncan , he had his little rhetoric on the Labour Party that he 's he believes in so much . |
| 19 | On the technology transfer er I do n't think that there will be any income this year , if there is it will be quite modest , we 're talking about three to four million dollars and it 's related to follow-up payments for training . |
| 20 | So you 're talking about February half term , you 're talking about three half term 's work right ? |
| 21 | we 're talking about three six are n't you at the end of the day that 's what they 're trying to apply for . |
| 22 | So we 're talking about three quarters of an inch . |
| 23 | ‘ And you 're concentrating on three sites : Belmodes , Rose Hilaire 's flat , and my house in Mouncy Street ? ’ |
| 24 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 25 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 26 | For even if the Danes say Yes to the treaty ( see next article ) , worries about it are growing in three European countries that have hitherto been staunchly pro-European . |
| 27 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 28 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 29 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 30 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |