Example sentences of "[adv prt] to three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 2 | He pointed out that on 3 March 1942 , his original recruits were down to three officers and thirteen men , and if brought up to strength they could be far better employed as a raiding force than as instructors for the proposed Indian units . |
| 3 | Top 40 stations in America edit the songs down to three minutes . |
| 4 | At that point Banana manager Keith Lambert instructed Luckwell to drop back and help with the chase and it was touch and go as the next group brought the gap down to three minutes on the finishing circuit at Rotherham . |
| 5 | ‘ We can cut it down to three hours , perhaps two and a half . ’ |
| 6 | Most players break this down to three woods , ten irons , and a putter . |
| 7 | There are several methods of adding a reverberation effect to recordings , but these basically boil down to three methods . |
| 8 | Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument , Honderich 's thesis boils down to three points . |
| 9 | In its original form NT could only support up to three processors , Sequent says , and was not a scalable . |
| 10 | ( Most prisoners come from the Greater London area , so family visits are relatively easy ; a liberal visiting policy also means that up to three visits can be made during a month . ) |
| 11 | The diaphragm and spermicide can be put in at any convenient time up to three hours before making love so it need n't interfere at all with intercourse . |
| 12 | Viruses can live on surfaces such as tables , desks and telephones for up to three hours . |
| 13 | In Manchester , police were forced to evacuate the areas surrounding bus stations at the Arndale Centre , Chorlton Street , Piccadilly and Stephenson Square for up to three hours while searches were carried out . |
| 14 | But as the anorexia progressed , my walks became longer as well as more frequent and , if I decided to follow the perimeter of the school grounds , could last for up to three hours . |
| 15 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 16 | There 's even a fireplace which can be installed on a wall with no flue : a container of special fuel is lit under ‘ coals ’ , and gives you up to three hours of warmth and flames with no mess , no de-ashing , and no chimney is needed . |
| 17 | Both parents help in the excavation of the pit , which can take up to three hours to dig . |
| 18 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc has entered the pen computing market with launch of the PenExec PenTop notebook , a direct result of its strategic alliance with the TE Electronics Grid Systems arm of Tandy Corp : the $3,000 machine comes in a 11.6″ by 9.4″ by 1.6″ 5.5 lbs black magnesium box , and runs for up to three hours of continuous computing , supports PCMCIA ; offers up to 200Mb disk and up to 20Mb main memory ; pre-installed software includes MS-DOS 6.0 , Windows 3.1 and Windows for Pen Computing , and Slate Corp is offering an AST pen essentials package of pen software applications and accessories — LooseLeaf Notetaker , Delrina WinFax Pen , Day-Timer Pen Scheduler and PenBook Business Reference Pages ; the PenExec also comes with a demo version of PenWare Inc 's PenCell spreadsheet ; the machine uses a 25MHz 80386SL and 2Mb RAM and 120Mb disk standard , one Type II PCMCIA slot and one external 3.5″ 1.44Mb floppy drive ; and it includes keyboard with 79 keys as well as the cordless pen . |
| 19 | Those which normally live on the inner part of the reef flat ( see below ) are more resistant to emersion than those normally under vigorous wave action : some species can survive emersion for periods up to three hours . |
| 20 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 21 | Hundreds of Trekkies queued for up to three hours to spend what for them was an almost perfect day at the cinema . |
| 22 | Three hundred of them queued for up to three hours at the weekend to watch all six of the Star Trek films , culminating with the latest , the Undiscovered Country . |
| 23 | Disabled drivers can park for up to three hours in 44 parking spaces within the traffic-free area for up to three hours provided they arrive before 10.30am . |
| 24 | Disabled drivers can park for up to three hours in 44 parking spaces within the traffic-free area for up to three hours provided they arrive before 10.30am . |
| 25 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 26 | The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes . |
| 27 | Product development departments could come up with fluorescent wolf-repellent bum-bags for £80 , and high-tech one-size bear-survival suits , built to withstand the claws of an angry grizzly for up to three minutes , and available in a range of attractive designer colours for only £350 . |
| 28 | The system updates the information every 30 seconds , and the taxi 's memory can retain a pole 's code for up to three minutes . |
| 29 | Second , rapid eye movements are not continuous during REM , but come in periodic bursts , typically lasting between two and ten seconds , and are separated by periods of sleep lasting up to three minutes with low voltage , mixed frequency EEG and muscle atonia . |
| 30 | Trend Kwikcoat is fast-drying , so that up to three coats may be applied in a day ; its acrylic base ensures it does not turn yellow ; it is low in odour ; and brushes may be washed out in water . , . . |