Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 2 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 3 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 4 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 5 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 6 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 7 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 8 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 9 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 10 | It is referred here to the Dryopithecinae and it includes three groups : ( 1 ) Dryopithecus itself in tribe Dryopithecini ; ( 2 ) a newly proposed tribe , Afropithecini with Afropithecus , Heliopithecus and Otavipithecus , together with material from Maboko Island and Nachola that has been referred in the past to Kenyapithecus ; and ( 3 ) the Kenyapithecini , which includes Kenyapithecus wickeri from Fort Ternan , Griphopithecus alpani from Pasalar , Turkey , and the postcrania from Klein Hadersdorf . |
| 11 | has to hit the uranium nucleus , and breaks it up into two other particles and it releases three neutrons . |
| 12 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 13 | If it be light , dry and free from bugs , if it be central in position , and if it contain three rooms , it will be eagerly sought for and hard to find . |
| 14 | Mind you , if it costs three pounds a head to get in you 'll probably not want to go . |
| 15 | There are 98 ways that a quark can travel between two points if it interacts three times with gluons . |
| 16 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 17 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 18 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 19 | In its recommendations , the IEHO said that any pool should be fully supervised by trained staff unless it fills three criteria ; the pool is used infrequently ; a relevant member of staff is always aware when the pool is in use ; and that use be restricted to adults of known swimming ability . |
| 20 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 21 | The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers . |
| 22 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 23 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 24 | Sovereign can be adapted according to customer needs and there are now 80 staff on the Sage Hotline to offer support — though it reckons three quarters of the 2,500 daily calls it receives relate to business rather than technical problems ! |
| 25 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 26 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |