Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 2 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 3 | Alright , sit down for three minutes . |
| 4 | I need to sit down for three minutes or , me back 'll snap in two . |
| 5 | What the TNCs spend locally can be broken down into three components , namely wages and salaries , utility and service costs , and material linkages . |
| 6 | The programme is broken down into three sections . |
| 7 | It is broken down into three categories : |
| 8 | It can be broken down into three phases . |
| 9 | We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale . |
| 10 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 11 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 12 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 13 | Under the bill , anyone who falsely accused fruit or vegetables of being tainted with dangerous preservatives or pesticides could be fined up to three times the value of lost product . |
| 14 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 15 | has come up with three sponsors to ‘ underwrite ’ half the costs of the show ( £200,000 ) Silhouette Eyewear , Vistech Redab property developers , and The Times and hope that a box office success will make up the balance . |
| 16 | It holds up to three horses and will be driven to and from London by Mrs Charley from their home just outside Coventry . |
| 17 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 18 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 19 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 20 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 21 | it 's just about to come out in three weeks time |
| 22 | The pilot project is being carried out on three forces and an independent evaluation will be completed in the spring of 1992 . |
| 23 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 24 | Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment . |
| 25 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 26 | Coding was carried out by three coders , each child 's home and school observations being coded by the same person . |
| 27 | Shaping the garnet could have been carried out by three methods ( Arrhenius 1971 ) . |
| 28 | The study was carried out in three subdivisions of different police forces . |
| 29 | To investigate whether PABA was absorbed from the colon , an instillation was carried out in three patients . |
| 30 | Under the approved scheme , with work being carried out in three phases , our headquarters will be a building site for three years . |