Example sentences of "[prep] three [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 , the brothers are believed to have inherited an estimated £500,000 when a Jersey court ruled that after three years the missing couple could be presumed dead . |
| 2 | The leakage subsided rapidly and after three months the stent was removed . |
| 3 | In the space of three years the educational solution was perceived initially as potentially flawed , ultimately as totally bankrupt . |
| 4 | For three centuries the common law courts have recognised the value of the visitor acting as the judge of the internal laws of the foundation and have refused to trespass upon his territory . |
| 5 | For three weeks the fortified monastery had been their prison . |
| 6 | for three numbers the Maltese heavy stared at him — while all his henchmen stood at the back of the club watching him watching John . |
| 7 | In three months the whole area embraced by the several reports was closely examined and this potential danger to shipping erased from the charts . |
| 8 | In three years the two women retrained and released fewer than thirty orangs . |
| 9 | First day or Last Day , Rest Day or Resurrection Day , the abiding Christian belief is that within three days the worst that humans could do to a man was transformed by the power of divine love into the greatest news story of history : ‘ Jesus lives ! ’ |
| 10 | Abraham Booth of Loundside , yeoman , died in 1671 , leaving a widow who paid tax on three hearths the following year . |
| 11 | Activities associated with exploration — sledging , ski-marching , hunting , tending dog teams , even walking on snow and carrying heavy clothing — all involve hard work , for which two to three times the normal caloric intake is required . |
| 12 | A further complication arose in late November when a sharp rise in the Danube 's flow ( up to three times the normal rate ) caused severe flooding and extensive damage to the dam site . |
| 13 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 14 | Performance will be quoted at two to three times the existing Sparcstation 2 . |
| 15 | The Commission can suspend or disbar any person from the securities industry ; require disgorgement of profits ; and impose penalties of anything up to three times the illicit gains made on the insider trades . |
| 16 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 17 | The compensation for the wind effect on the diameter of the turn is to allow two to three times the single drift on the outbound leg . |
| 18 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |