Example sentences of "[vb -s] for three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 2 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
| 3 | above general price increases for three years in succession . |
| 4 | Then the gallery closes for three weeks in preparation for its major summer exhibition of new pictures by Anselm Kiefer . |
| 5 | The black sand beach here stretches for three kilometres and village life is centred around one main street , lined with bars and restaurants overlooking the seafront . |
| 6 | • To freeze : Freeze the unfilled cooked pastry puffs for three months . |
| 7 | The walk lasts for three hours and starts from the car park of Middleton Hall , two miles south of Wooler ( ) . |
| 8 | The course is suitable for all models — 900 , 910 , 940 , 950/950i , 965 and 270 — and lasts for three days , from Wednesday to Friday , 11–13 November . |
| 9 | The New Year holiday lasts for three days and is seen as a time of fresh starts , new resolutions and auspicious omens . |
| 10 | Er it typically lasts for three days . |
| 11 | This lasts for three terms and gives you one three hour evening class every week . |
| 12 | Indeed , the Edinburgh International Festival , which lasts for three weeks in the summer , attracts visitors as well as artists and performers from all over the world . |
| 13 | The Woolwich has also launched a 7.99% fixed-rate mortgage , which lasts for three years . |
| 14 | Movement and Dance and Medau in particular come into the plan from 1983 in an ongoing programme which lasts for three years . |
| 15 | But none of these problems is unique to acid house : the Notting Hill Carnival continues for three days , attracts vast crowds , involves large-scale drug consumption , and is stupefyingly noisy . |
| 16 | The management contract runs for three years and includes provision for the recycling of clothes , paper , glass , metals , oils and the removal of CFCs from refrigerators . |
| 17 | The limitation period for actions under the Act runs for three years from the date on which the damage was caused by the defective product . |