Example sentences of "[noun pl] in three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s .
2 It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say .
3 Most insects have six legs in three pairs , and are equipped with wings ( a number of primitive forms are wingless ) .
4 The system carries signals in three frequency hands .
5 The debate , the second direct clash of candidates in three days , was broadcast live on Radio Cleveland and chaired by presenter Alan Wright .
6 The Convention of Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has since 1973 aimed to protect species threatened by international trade , and lists endangered animals in three appendices according to the degree of threat they face .
7 Paul Bodin 's the name … three goals in three games … from his unlikely birth at left back he 's hit the winner … the only goal … in the last two matches …
8 Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat …
9 The recalled Torquay striker Jimmy Smith celebrated his 20th birthday with two goals in three minutes during a 4-0 win which dashed Sutton 's hopes of another upset .
10 Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie .
11 five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes
12 Dykstra started the season behind Billy Thomson in the pecking order at Fir Park , but even though the former Dundee United man was recalled for a game after Dykstra let in ten goals in three matches , the roles have now been reversed .
13 The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel .
14 Legato has made multiple entries in three sections of WIN.INI , under [ Extensions ] , [ Embedding ] and [ Legato ] .
15 She teaches us lots of words in three minutes . ’
16 Only one of his plays , the charming ‘ comedietta for two voices in three conversations ’ called Village Wooing , which featured the local postmistress , took its inspiration from Ayot .
17 Election Comment : Scots in three minds
18 Construct — o — Straws or Orbit material encourage children to build shapes in three dimensions .
19 Communication between the designer and the producer used to be done almost entirely by traditional engineering drawings but there is now a tendency to use sketches , schematic drawings , photographs and models including computer-based models , for example complicated shapes in three dimensions are difficult to represent as rectangular projections and are not easily interpreted .
20 We have also found HPV DNA sequences in three cell lines of colorectal cancer from Chinese subjects .
21 Written by two professors , Charles Taylor and John Beetlestone , both at University College , Cardiff , it describes entries in a competition organised for schools in three counties in south Wales aimed at introducing drama as a method of understanding — even enjoying — science , which is what the Molecule Club does on its own , as far as I know .
22 Nine schools in three Midlands LEAs , will be identified for in-depth study , following a questionnaire survey .
23 The research referred to throughout the rest of this chapter took place in a selection of secondary schools in three LEAs in 1989 .
24 The move has its origins in three phenomena .
25 Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks .
26 No patient had any coexistent illness apart from pulmonary emboli in three cases and secondary end organ dysfunction in four .
27 BEAUTIFUL CUSHIONS in three hours
28 " I lost on-and-a-half-stones in three months on the WNAS programme .
29 passes in three subjects at ‘ A ’ level and grade A , B or C in one subject in the GCSE¹
30 GCE applicants must offer passes in three A-levels at grades BBC , taken at the first sitting .
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