Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 2 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 3 | I mean , if the cheque bounced three times before your wah-wah pedal went wrong , can you really blame the dealer for being a trifle tardy with the repair … ? |
| 4 | ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . ) |
| 5 | Hot sand , ash and rock tumbled three miles down deep gullies towards villages and farms on the lower slopes . |
| 6 | A KILLER stabbed three generations of a family to death then started three fires in their home . |
| 7 | The research involved three stages . |
| 8 | William was heard to exclaim as , with their foot beginning to give way , the Jacobite horse charged three times to restore the situation , forcing some of the attackers back into the river . |
| 9 | EVERTON match-winner Paul Rideout singled out comeback star Ian Snodin as the man who could spark an Everton revival after the Goodison side snatched three points at Nottingham Forest for the first time in ten years . |
| 10 | On 4 Jul 66 the Royal Australian Air Force ordered three aircraft , and most important of all on 28 Feb 67 the Business Jets Division of Pan Am increased their firm orders to 160 . |
| 11 | The scheme is an adaptation of an idea that the Japan Electronic Machinery Industry Association developed three years ago to guide ambulances and rescue vehicles through cities . |
| 12 | The new bill provided for a rate of 31 per cent for both groups , and as a result established three income tax rates of 15 , 28 , and 31 per cent . |
| 13 | Mr Don Steele , spokesman for Action on Alcohol Abuse , said the book tried to revive arguments that the industry lost three years ago . |
| 14 | In addition , the coalition included three independents . |
| 15 | The London side needed three points for their automatic promotion challenge and dominated the first half . |
| 16 | One stretch took three overnights where the great plan allowed just one . |
| 17 | His study took three months to prepare and , considers the markets available , it considers things like recycling credits that the councils can give you . |
| 18 | Greater Manchester Fire Brigade sent three appliances to the scene . |
| 19 | The search spanned three continents but it uncovered a pathetic bounty . |
| 20 | The Birmingham study highlighted three problem areas : patient autonomy ( i.e. wearing own clothes , deciding what time to get up ) ; ward facilities and layout and communication between hospital staff and carers . |
| 21 | The Department of Trade and Industry gave three years of core programme funding to it and makes annual grants to the NDC and other regional development agencies to undertake our important and beneficial inward investment promotional work . |
| 22 | The card featured three world champions in Julio Cesar Chavez , Julian Jackson and Terry Norris , as well as former champions Greg Haugen and Tucker . |
| 23 | The partnership struck three times within a fortnight last July , winding up with a particularly game effort to deny in-form Pickles by a length in a competitive seven furlong handicap at Ayr . |
| 24 | With the national vote split three ways , what positions should the press and broadcasting take up ? |
| 25 | The remainder comprised three patients with iron deficiency , one with carcinomatosis , two with oral amphthous ulceration , two normal subjects considered to have been incorrectly diagnosed with gluten sensitivity as children , one patient with mild microscopic colitis , one patient with giardiasis , and two seemingly normal relatives of patients with coeliac disease . |
| 26 | The North Korean Prime Minister , Yon Hyong Muk , in a telephone message on Aug. 9 to his Southern counterpart , Kang Young Hoon , stated that he would only accept the list of visitors if the South met three preconditions . |
| 27 | Around a century ago , the mill housed three sets of stones ; there is now a single pair of French Burrs , of at least 70 years of age and probably much older . |
| 28 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |
| 29 | He had a video camera on his shoulder last November , when a mob doused three thieves with petrol and looked on as they burned . |
| 30 | In one period of three days , out-of-hours work involved three workers in 44 hours of work , on a Friday night , Saturday and Monday night . |