Example sentences of "[coord] three [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
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| 3 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
| 4 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 5 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 6 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 7 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 8 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 9 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 10 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 11 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 12 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 13 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 14 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 15 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 16 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 17 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 18 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 19 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 20 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |
| 21 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 22 | In February , Cadogan Travel ( 0703–3326611 ) offers a 14-day holiday for around £578 , including scheduled flights and three days ' free car hire . |
| 23 | Besides five local government employees , there are 16 lecturers , 13 union officials , 11 teachers , 10 voluntary workers , five party officials and three MPs ' researchers . |
| 24 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 25 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 26 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 27 | Early redemption penalties for the shorter term fixed rates are one moth 's interest in the final year , two month 's interest in the penultimate years and three months ' interest prior to this . |
| 28 | I was accustomed to wealthy Americans treating their children to lavish rewards for completing extremely average educations , but three months ' charter aboard Wavebreaker seemed uncommonly generous , even to a man as famously wealthy as Senator Crowninshield . |