Example sentences of "in three " in BNC.
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| 1 | With possibly one in three of adults in some African towns and cities already HIV infected , it is hard to know how to begin to help . |
| 2 | This is not to say , of course , that the age of the corporate brewery — or multinational — will not return : in SAVE and CAMRA 's 1983 report , Nikolaus Boulting wisely warned that future students of interior design may find ‘ that the cycle is complete , from company identity to corporate image and back in three generations ’ . |
| 3 | This forum will look at these in three sessions : |
| 4 | Any one application must not exceed £1,000 and a maximum of three applications in three years can be made . |
| 5 | His favourite topics were sex and sex and he had n't repeated himself once in three years . |
| 6 | Jewish education is understood in three phases : primarily in the home , which is regarded as a sort of mini-temple , so strongly are the emphases and traditions posited there ; at school , in the normal way , as with all growing children ; and at Hebrew school , which is attached to the synagogue under the rabbi or the teachers appointed by him . |
| 7 | For such , God only frowns on the world , and stirs it to judgment ; the butterfly can not break loose into flight ; it merely expires , as Leonard expressed it , ending ‘ its life in three flag-swept days . ’ |
| 8 | This is being run as a pilot scheme in three counties this year , and will go nationwide as soon as a sponsor can be found . |
| 9 | In fact , the opportunity for Edberg to play ( up to the final ) one of the 7 other players entered with a top fifty ranking , was denied him when first , Lendl slumped to defeat against Grant Connell in three sets , then Chang and Jarryd lost to Wheaton , while , in the Swede 's half of the draw , Rotsagno lost to John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge fell to the unseeded Pat Cash . |
| 10 | They work on the principle of a pantograph which can operate in three dimensions to carve a variety of materials such as marble , plastic and wood . |
| 11 | V-tools or parting tools are usually available in three angles 45° , 60° and 90° . |
| 12 | One in three women over the age of 80 at some time have a fracture of the hip . |
| 13 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 14 | Like Caesar 's Gaul , it can be described in three parts : continuing decline 1980–2 ; the London & South Eastern phase under David Kirby 1982–5 ; and the reign of Chris Green and the birth of Network SouthEast commencing with his appointment on 6 January 1986 . |
| 15 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 16 | Generally speaking , choreographers can approach their task in three different ways . |
| 17 | For the purpose of a choreographic grammar the word ‘ impetus ’ can be interpreted in three ways ali of which are applicable to the design . |
| 18 | Members of the family are sleeping in three different places . |
| 19 | Fig. 14 : complete circuit diagram in three parts . |
| 20 | The shore ends of the cable used solid armoured wires instead of the stranded type and the cable itself was gradually reduced in size between the shore and the deep sea section in three stages — a practice still followed today . |
| 21 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 22 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Police arrested more than 200 anti-nuclear protesters at a military base in the south Australian outback yesterday , bringing the total detained to nearly 500 in three days of protests . |
| 23 | First came Four Saints in Three Acts , produced in 1934 , and then The Mother of Us All ( 1947 ) , which demonstrated a new kind of plotless opera only now reaching a wider currency through the stage works of Philip Glass . |
| 24 | In three innings against England this summer , he has yet to be out . |
| 25 | The Belgian , who had popped out of the clinches to snatch narrow verdicts in three mass sprint finishes , settled the race with a remarkable show in the 40km time trial . |
| 26 | So far , with the number of Japanese-speaking graduates in the UK scarcely being measured in three figures , any reciprocal learning will depend mainly on what Japanese companies choose to make available . |
| 27 | Carl-Uwe Steeb , a local resident who defeated Leconte in three sets on Monday , gave John McEnroe an unfriendly welcome , beating the New Yorker 7-5 , 7-6 . |
| 28 | The American pair built a seemingly impregnable 6-1 , 4-0 lead , only to lose in three dramatic sets . |
| 29 | The sale price is to be met in three ways . |
| 30 | Himself , he was a railwayman who travelled all over the country , campaigned in more than 20 constituencies and was elected a Labour councillor in three towns . |