Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] [prep] the three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
| 2 | Yeah I saw that , what was that one with the three leaves and that |
| 3 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
| 4 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 5 | This was the only one of the three language efforts for which I received any payment ; in this case an honorarium from the Burma Government of thirty pounds . |
| 6 | As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression . |
| 7 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 8 | Ballymacarrett was the only one of the three areas in which there was a clear and consistent correspondence between the strength of a person 's network structure and his or her use of vernacular ( or casual ) variants . |
| 9 | May I point out to my right hon. Friend that the Royal Air Force is the only one of the three western air forces with significant operational experience since world war two — the other two are the Israeli and the United States air forces — not to have combat-ready reserve squadrons ? |
| 10 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 11 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 12 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 13 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 14 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |