Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1980 , MacDonald has run three companies . |
| 2 | In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John . |
| 3 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 4 | Membership may be given if a writer has had three works recorded for sale to the public which have been released by a recognized recording label lone which is registered in the Music Master catalogue ) . |
| 5 | To date , the Board has had three meetings , while the Committee has only met once , so that it is still too early to be sure how it will operate . |
| 6 | Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why the Department of Transport , whose budget has increased three times the rate of that of the Scottish Office , can find £1.5 billion for additional railway improvements in the south of England , but can not find £80 million to electrify the Edinburgh-Aberdeen railway line ? |
| 7 | But now farmer Jeremy Chamberlayne has spent three quarters of a million pounds turning the cattle yards into offices : |
| 8 | HAMBURG-based DJ Alex Christensen has spent three years restoring a vintage Cadillac . |
| 9 | Lucy had had three weeks before then , and still done nothing ? |
| 10 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 11 | Whereas in 1749 The Monthly Review had published three poems ‘ leaving their merit to the decision of the public ’ [ MR , 2 ( 1749–50 ) , 15 ] , in 1751 the judgement was more explicit : |
| 12 | Representatives of fishing nations have ended three weeks of talks in New York with agreement to hold more talks on ways of preventing the collapse of marine fish stocks because of overfishing . |
| 13 | Marked animals have survived three years as adults , so this figure may be an under-estimate . |
| 14 | India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 . |
| 15 | Alan Stout has served three years for abusing boys as young as ten in Worcester . |
| 16 | OECD/ CERI work has identified three stages of the process — the final school years , further education and training , and the early years of employment and independent living — between which a continuity of approach is vital . |
| 17 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 18 | One village had slain three men from the north who had tried to steal food , and they hung like scarecrows on a crude gibbet . |
| 19 | Yet this morning , a part of her had been guiltily glad that Taureg had sunk three enemy ships , not to mention the destroyer . |
| 20 | By half-time Richmond were sure of the victory they needed to clinch promotion , and Livesey had added three conversions and two penalty goals . |
| 21 | THE BRILLIANT CORNERS have added three dates to their tour , at Birmingham St Annes Centre on November 15 , Bath Pavilion ( with The Moonflowers ) 22 and Harrogate ( venue tbc ) 29 . |
| 22 | THE BRILLIANT CORNERS have added three dates to their tour , at Birmingham St Annes Centre on November 15 , Bath Pavilion ( with The Moonflowers ) 22 and Harrogate ( venue tbc ) 29 . |
| 23 | Moore contended that most moralists have confused three questions . |
| 24 | Trace-element and samarium-neodymium isotope data for south Devon have enabled three sources of basaltic magma to be recognised . |
| 25 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 26 | Wilkinson has notched three goals in as many games after scoring 24 times last term . |
| 27 | Is it possible you do n't know that Berenice has had three miscarriages and that with every one her chance of carrying a child to term diminishes ? ’ |
| 28 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
| 29 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |
| 30 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |