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

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1 The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ .
2 By contrast , the visitors had three efforts on goal in the 90 minutes .
3 Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office .
4 Like other reptiles the saurischians had three bones in the hip : the one above the hip socket is called the ilium , and the one below — pointing forwards and down — is called the pubis .
5 The end result was that stonemasons had three sets of images to play with and blend , invariably at their own discretion : images rooted in earlier pagan beliefs , contemporary medieval life and the Bible .
6 One of his dicta was that all the forts had three periods .
7 Some mines operated a two-shift system , others had three shifts .
8 Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text .
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