Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost impossible to pick holes in the Essex claim to be the best county side especially for three and four-day cricket . |
| 2 | Her interests are almost all active ones ; and to be with someone whose idea of a holiday is to sit stock still for three hours at a time , with a small box of watercolours and a sketch pad and ‘ watch ’ things , was beyond her . |
| 3 | A nw but expensive regimen which has been shown to reduce the perinatal transfer of both Ancylostoma and Toxocara larvae is the oral administration of large doses of fenbendazole daily for three weeks before to three weeks after whelping . |
| 4 | THE EUROPEAN Commission of Human Rights gave its permission yesterday for three newspapers to pursue a claim that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 5 | Following the killings a military order was issued closing the Strip off for three days . |
| 6 | ‘ We were woken at 10.30pm and told to put our kit on for three hours of night-time navigation exercises , ’ says Peter . |
| 7 | So she puts the pinger on for three minutes . |
| 8 | Roger Sippl reckons the market for customer service management software and systems will grow to be as big as the Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP ) market is now , and expects there will be room enough for three players . |
| 9 | Both acute inflammation and healing take place simultaneously for three months or more without further treatment and ulcers may cause bleeding , perforation , or pyloric or duodenal stenosis with time . |
| 10 | Lot number one hundred and twenty Lot number one twenty there it is at the back on the left , one twenty right at the back there for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds , any more at three hundred only ? |
| 11 | Margaret agreed to be seen at home by the therapist initially for three sessions , to help her express her feelings of grief about the loss of her husband , and to explore ways of coping with her practical problems . |
| 12 | The family moved to Inverness in about 1810 and Joseph attended the Academy there for three and a half years . |
| 13 | ‘ I have an 18 month old son so I could only leave the conditioner on for three minutes but I was still very impressed . |
| 14 | The landlord said to him you know she , she she sort of took a lease out for three years on it . |
| 15 | erm I 'm very much aware that the challenges are ahead of us , both in terms of erm dealing with a difficult financial situation , which has been the pattern now for three or four years , but also in entering certain fields and approaches to arts activity that perhaps require more of the central staff than previously . |
| 16 | Theodora had lodged in the attic flat of the Archdeaconry now for three years . |
| 17 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |
| 18 | Managers may be reluctant to promote good communication actively for three main reasons : |
| 19 | So never mind what the executive amends , recommend , stick your hand up for three eight eight and three eight nine and give a bit of power back to the people . |
| 20 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 21 | For example in the February issue of The Art Newspaper ( No.25 pp.1 and 2 ) , in the article entitled ‘ Yugoslavia covered-up over the Sevso treasure ’ , it is stated that ‘ Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title … |
| 22 | Seven patients received laser treatment only for three months or more ( median 14 weeks , range 13–39 ) . |
| 23 | I have been a keen detectorist now for three years and my best find to date is a ring . |
| 24 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 25 | Lot number one hundred and twelve , Lot number one hundred and twelve gentlemen , it 's the bamboo picnic baskets , there we are , there 's the picnic baskets showing in the front here for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds , anyone want them for three hundred pounds ? |
| 26 | They 've been serving coffee here for three hundred years , ’ he confided . |
| 27 | I did n't see the same face twice for three weeks — there were so many sound stages and all these people , and on top of that , I was going to make a movie with Clark Gable . |
| 28 | He had n't spent a Christmas there for three years . |