Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 2 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 3 | The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation . |
| 4 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 5 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 6 | Since then individual departments have each published their own spending plans for the next three years , approved by the Treasury . |
| 7 | This statement together with a series of strategic aims ( set out on page 2 ) and more specific objectives will guide the Councils in establishing specific action plans for the next three years . |
| 8 | We have set out our tax and spending plans for the next three years . |
| 9 | New programmes for the next three years include a research study on women in the media in some Asian countries , workshops in South Asia for women 's alternative media , and a wider concern for advocacy in women 's media issues . |
| 10 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 11 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 12 | In return , the Edinburgh branch of the STA was to maintain peace on all questions of wages and hours for the next three years . |
| 13 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 14 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 15 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 16 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 17 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 18 | Now these , this next band , the annual mileage ones , the sickness , and the form seven projections for the next three years , that data will come from Alan . |
| 19 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 20 | Final competences for the first three levels ( supervisory , junior and middle managers ) are due in October 1990 together with procedures for MCI endorsement of awards . |
| 21 | ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 22 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 23 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 24 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 25 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
| 27 | Biological and Molecular Sciences was one of a relatively small number of University Departments in the UK to be awarded ‘ Q ’ status by NERC for Research Studentships , an award that essentially ensures a steady input of NERC-funded PhD students into the Department for the next three years . |
| 28 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 29 | Table I shows mean breath hydrogen concentrations for the last three days of each test period for responders and non-responders . |
| 30 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |