Example sentences of "[conj] three [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If |
| 2 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 3 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 4 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 5 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 6 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 7 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 8 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 9 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 10 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 11 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 12 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 13 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 14 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 15 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 16 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 17 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 18 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 19 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |
| 20 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 21 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 22 | The only other case where there was the suggestion of an explicitly sexual motive and which had more than three days ' coverage was the murder of a 9-year-old boy which was reported in two national newspapers — the Daily Mail ( on three days ) ; the Daily Mirror ( on one day ) — and much fuller coverage in the local newspaper , the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 23 | Where a defendant or respondent under disability has no guardian ad litem acting for him under rr 5 or 8(2) , the plaintiff ( or applicant ) shall , after the time for delivering a defence ( or answer ) has expired and before taking any further steps , apply to the court without fee on not less than three days ' notice to the person on whom the summons was served under Ord 10 , r 4 for the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 6 ) . |
| 24 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 25 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 26 | And normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a junior or first line management post directly concerned with the provision of food or beverages or with the provision and servicing of accommodation . |
| 27 | Or normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry . |
| 28 | The company says it will be running some time this year , after more than three years ' work . |
| 29 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
| 30 | Mr. Baldock , Mr. Davis , Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Yea have contracts of service with the Company which can be terminated by not more than three years ' notice . |