Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 2 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 3 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 4 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 5 | The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old forward could now be banned for three months under the ‘ doubling-up ’ system for getting sent off twice in two years . |
| 7 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 8 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 9 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 10 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 11 | The makeshift team of veteran professionals and apprentices have n't been paid for three months and the club must find a quarter of a million pounds to guarantee survival . |
| 12 | The players have n't been paid for three months , so who in their right mind wants to rescue them ? |
| 13 | Last month , Christopher How was jailed for three years , after being found guilty of seven charges of fraud and theft . |
| 14 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |