Example sentences of "[subord] three [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 2 | Yes , erm there are not , not more than three strains er most winters circulating . |
| 3 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 4 | The only other case where there was the suggestion of an explicitly sexual motive and which had more than three days ' coverage was the murder of a 9-year-old boy which was reported in two national newspapers — the Daily Mail ( on three days ) ; the Daily Mirror ( on one day ) — and much fuller coverage in the local newspaper , the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 5 | Where a defendant or respondent under disability has no guardian ad litem acting for him under rr 5 or 8(2) , the plaintiff ( or applicant ) shall , after the time for delivering a defence ( or answer ) has expired and before taking any further steps , apply to the court without fee on not less than three days ' notice to the person on whom the summons was served under Ord 10 , r 4 for the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 6 ) . |
| 6 | Since monthly courses were introduced towards the end of 1991 , accidents costing more than three days ' lost time have plummeted by 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced . |
| 8 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 9 | The company says it will be running some time this year , after more than three years ' work . |
| 10 | Similar measures have been proposed for diplomas awarded after less than three years ' training . |
| 11 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
| 12 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
| 13 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 14 | Mr. Baldock , Mr. Davis , Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Yea have contracts of service with the Company which can be terminated by not more than three years ' notice . |
| 15 | And normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a junior or first line management post directly concerned with the provision of food or beverages or with the provision and servicing of accommodation . |
| 16 | Or normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry . |
| 17 | Some otherwise generous companies offer even senior directors no more than three months ' notice ; at the other end of the scale , notice periods of three or even five years are by no means rare . |
| 18 | First , current asset investments cash flows have been merged with cash and cash equivalents , whereas the FRS requires those acquired with more than three months ' maturity to be reported in the Investing section of the cash flow statement . |
| 19 | As a rule-of-thumb , your debts ( excluding mortgage ) should not total more than three months ' earnings before tax . |
| 20 | No prohibition or ‘ clog or fetter ’ may be imposed upon the right for any partner determining his membership by giving not less than three months ' notice in writing . |
| 21 | More difficult would be patients with a deep seated psychological problem which would require more than three months ' treatment . |
| 22 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 23 | We control the pay round , the pay round increase in Pearson was less than three percent a a and we 've continued with capital expenditure designed to reduce costs . |
| 24 | And as we go to press , the equivalent of more than three Hiroshima 's have been dropped on Iraq . |
| 25 | It might not actually be exactly cos three X erm |
| 26 | NAZLI TOP : A 23-year-old nurse and midwife , she was tortured for four days at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters while three months ' pregnant . |