Example sentences of "had three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In December they had three different interpretations of the Gross Domestic Product , which is one of the most important figures for macro-economists . |
| 4 | Dunstable had three players sent off , the rest left the field in protest and the match was called off and awarded to Staines . |
| 5 | The product had three elements . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 7 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 8 | He had three suffragan bishops and three archdeacons . |
| 9 | Peter Vasey ( Trev 's Browning ) had three roach on pole and bread punch for victory with 0–4–0 . |
| 10 | To help I now had three rucsacs on my back . |
| 11 | The end result was that stonemasons had three sets of images to play with and blend , invariably at their own discretion : images rooted in earlier pagan beliefs , contemporary medieval life and the Bible . |
| 12 | And I had three kings and two queens , which sobered me a little bit . |
| 13 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
| 14 | We had three gigs on the trot , including The Marquee . |
| 15 | We had three arrests on the tour , the third was mine . |
| 16 | When Harold Macmillan took over from Anthony Eden in January that year , he had three primary objectives in mind : to place the British economy on a sounder footing ; to repair the damage done to Anglo-American relations by Suez ; and to restore the fortunes of the Conservative Party . |
| 17 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 18 | It had three advantages over the submarine system : British launching aircraft already existed whereas the submarines did not ; the American content of the total system could be reduced by manufacture under licence in the United Kingdom ; and the Americans were likely to tie the purchase of Polaris to the mixed-manned Multilateral Nuclear Force that Eisenhower was keen to foist upon NATO . |
| 19 | England soon struck back , though , and had three wickets down for 25 , only for Richards to launch into Willis . |
| 20 | Indeed , in the first game at Scarborough they lost a wicket first ball and had three down for 23 before Barlow , on his first representative appearance , held the innings together with 80 not out , helping the total to 202 . |
| 21 | In London , the big plane tree stuck in the pavement outside Mrs Parvis 's house had three white rings painted round its black trunk so people could see it even in the dark . |
| 22 | It had three main purposes . |
| 23 | A charity organisation dedicated to the furtherance of despots , united in stemming the tide of democracy that sweeps the earth , they had three available shirts : Bokassa , Amin and Marcos . |
| 24 | From various other coins we can see that the pediment had three openings or windows and was decorated with four sculptural figures below a central Medusa head at the apex . |
| 25 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 26 | Clifford said he did not know which academic dress to wear as he had three London degrees , and ‘ I ca n't wear them all at once ’ . |
| 27 | Rose had three big stones filling up her hands . |
| 28 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 29 | The parents of the dead sisters , Mr Peter Garbutt , 58 , and his wife , Joan , who had three children , were being comforted by relatives and friends yesterday . |
| 30 | A long-time friend of the family , Mr Ray Whittaker , 62 , a council worker who lives nearby , said : ‘ Peter and Joan only had three children and have nearly lost them all . ’ |