Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany there were some three deaths that the police thought could be related to such fantasy games , including one in which a self-confessed Storm Master hanged himself in prison after raping and killing his girlfriend . |
| 2 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |
| 3 | were sixty three quid . |
| 4 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 5 | I am the daughter of and , nee who were married three years before my birth . |
| 6 | Yeah , the payroll costs for the first half of last year were seventy three point eight million the payroll costs for the first half of the review were sixty eight point eight |
| 7 | One day as we were going to a choral concert in Bath Abbey , we were all three walking along the Parade when my mother stopped Dana and said , pointing across the road : ‘ That 's the police station . |
| 8 | They were all three standing in the lane outside Greystones . |
| 9 | Among those confirmed dead were all three crew members and a passenger . |
| 10 | Now they were all three degrees over . |
| 11 | Many who were angry three years ago have cooled . |
| 12 | Yet seated side by side near the front — ahead of Nancy Reagan , America 's First Lady , and many other dignitaries — were those three girls from Coleherne Court : |
| 13 | Among them were thirty three year old Bill Raeper , and twenty eight year old Martin Hoftun , both writers from Oxford . |
| 14 | A , Mary Pickford her bust was thirty two inches , B , Jane Mansfield , her bust was forty three inches |
| 15 | And then it was another three days travelling by coach across France , and by ferry to Dover where they arrived last night . |
| 16 | In 1991 , the trade surplus for Scotch was some three times the current trade surplus for oil ! |
| 17 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 18 | Helen Davies from Bristol , who was nineteen three weeks ago was a passenger in a car which hit a tree at Cinderford , in the Forest of Dean . |
| 19 | I was sick three times as I was trying to get ready . |
| 20 | Little Trevor was sick three times — too many sweeties before bedtime , I expect , so I 'm all behind like the cow 's tail this morning . |
| 21 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 22 | All the woodlands of the upper side , there was three three feedings there . |
| 23 | Errol Flynn claimed to have spent at least 13,000 nights in the arms of one women or another and although he was married three times , he spent most of his time away from his wives and children . |
| 24 | Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters . |
| 25 | He was married three times : to Margaret , daughter of Joseph Gatey of Keswick , Cumberland , in 1869 , who died in 1877 and by whom he had two daughters ; to Jessy Henrietta , daughter of James Stewart of Clapham , Yorkshire , in 1880 , who died in 1904 ; and to Florence Maude , daughter of the Revd Robert Daniel of Osbaldwick , Yorkshire and widow of Colonel J. Lawson Whalley , in 1909 . |
| 26 | As an heiress she was a valuable commodity in the Elizabethan marriage market , and she was married three times , to well-connected younger sons approved by the Hastings family . |
| 27 | He was married three times . |
| 28 | He was married three times , to Lettice , daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] of Cholmondeley , Cheshire ; Elizabeth , daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey , Cheshire ; and Elizabeth , daughter of Sir Peter Warburton [ q.v. ] of Grafton , Cheshire . |
| 29 | He was married three times . |
| 30 | Jackson was married three times : to Elizabeth Savory ( died 1748 ) in 1743 ; to Mary or Maria ( daughter of Benjamin Martin , q.v. , optician and instrument-maker ) , who died at their home on Woolwich Common in 1784 ; and to Jane ( Chamberlain ? ) , a widow . |