Example sentences of "[adv prt] by three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City gave another disappointing display as they made their second Cup exit of the week , when in their replay in the O'Brien Trophy game , they went by the went down by three goals to one . |
| 2 | But as he was passing it across he paused halfway , holding the precious piece of paper up by three fingers . |
| 3 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 4 | For the year as a whole , the deficit in sterling terms was up by three quarters from $120.2m to $210.5m . |
| 5 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |
| 6 | Shaping the garnet could have been carried out by three methods ( Arrhenius 1971 ) . |
| 7 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 8 | Coding was carried out by three coders , each child 's home and school observations being coded by the same person . |
| 9 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 10 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |