Example sentences of "[verb] for three [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 3 | ENGINEER Terry Higgins dropped himself right in it when he rescued a teenager trapped for three days in a freezing bog . |
| 4 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 5 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 6 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 7 | THREE GUYS 17-18 YEARS OLD looking for three girls in the Eastbourne area who are into heavy metal and skateboarding- Photos please- Check this out ! ! |
| 8 | Made from fine-cut beef and pork , this salami is cured naturally in salt and then left to mature for three months in a controlled but draughty atmosphere . |
| 9 | The tribe danced for three days in the hope that the Great Spirits would send them rain . |
| 10 | above general price increases for three years in succession . |
| 11 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 12 | Then the gallery closes for three weeks in preparation for its major summer exhibition of new pictures by Anselm Kiefer . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 14 | Though invalided out of the infantry in 1915 with tuberculosis , Pearson volunteered the following year for the Army Service Corps , and was commissioned and served for three years in Mesopotamia and Persia . |
| 15 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 16 | Japan , too , is highlighted as part of the huge Japan Festival which is running for three months in Northern Ireland and throughout Britain — but , yes , it was another coincidence that Scottish Opera chose to offer us Madama Butterfly ! |
| 17 | Our Dave 's coming for us , he ca n't have all that time off , he 's coming for three weeks in er |
| 18 | It is made with ewes ' milk and is left to ripen for three months in limestone caves . |
| 19 | And this case is adjourned for three weeks in order that a computer printout will can be obtained . |
| 20 | This case is adjourned for three weeks in order get a printout can be obtained . |
| 21 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Edinburgh International Festival , which lasts for three weeks in the summer , attracts visitors as well as artists and performers from all over the world . |
| 23 | A man was jailed for three years in Cardiff for burglary . |
| 24 | Dell claims that the battery will last for three hours in normal use , without taking advantage of any of the power-saving features . |
| 25 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |
| 26 | Will he now confirm , since he seems to regard all problems as being entirely domestic , that over the second half of the last year industrial production fell in the United States , in Japan and elsewhere and that Germany 's gross domestic product has now declined for three quarters in succession and Germany is in recession ? |
| 27 | Drying time : wearable after drying for three hours in a warm room . |
| 28 | It had first been established in 1979 , and was renewed for three years in 1989. * Evidence has emerged of continued " pirate whaling " in the south Atlantic . |
| 29 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 30 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |