Example sentences of "[adj] three [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following three chapters I will be examining their significance in three broad contexts : family and community ; the social divisions brought about by age , class , race and gender ; and the criminal justice system and crime control policy . |
| 2 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 3 | Which of these three numbers is the most appropriate depends upon which of the following three statements we think is nearest the truth : |
| 4 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
| 5 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 6 | In discussing the previous three systems it was possible to say something about their knowledge sources and data structures in isolation from the processing performed over them . |
| 7 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 8 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 9 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |
| 10 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 11 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 12 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 13 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 14 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |
| 15 | Over the past three years we invested in new models , new manufacturing facilities and capacity . ’ |
| 16 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 17 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 18 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 19 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 20 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 21 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 22 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 23 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 24 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 25 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 26 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 27 | During the past three months I have purchased from the Institute two publications . |
| 28 | For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region . |
| 29 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |