Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we need to consider sequences consisting of three elements : |
| 2 | The items for both tasks were based on sequences consisting of three elements , such as : |
| 3 | Kent had strength in depth , scoring 9–0 whitewashes against Dorset and Hants. , Isle of Wight , with a 6–3 win against Herts , the latter being a tight encounter with two of their winning rubbers going to three sets . |
| 4 | The study then compares NT to Unix on 80 functional areas falling into three categories : user environment , operating environment and development environment . |
| 5 | The centre of Matson was brick-built , a few buildings rising to three storeys , a few of them whitewashed but the rest left the whisky colour of the local clay . |
| 6 | Our brains were designed to understand hunting and gathering , mating and child-rearing : a world of medium-sized objects moving in three dimensions at moderate speeds . |
| 7 | The event at the weekend is the biggest pre-season competition in Northern Ireland , with teams competing in three sections : senior , intermediate and junior . |
| 8 | Tests on families living within three miles of the tanker wreck , at Sumburgh , were compared with the results of tests carried out on people living 60 miles away in the north mainland . |
| 9 | Worcestershire businessman Tony Mole has pledged an undisclosed sum to keep the wheels rolling for three years … |
| 10 | The underground complex had been built in summer , the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock . |
| 11 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 12 | Another 15-year-old youth , arrested for an entirely separate offence — pushing people off the pavement — was also subsequently charged , and the upshot was that five youths ( including one 15-year-old girl ) received prison sentences ranging from three weeks to six months . |
| 13 | He also granted reductions in prison sentences varying between three months and three years for 1,354 common prisoners . |
| 14 | The defendants faced charges arising from three murders , three armed assaults and 32 armed robberies committed between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 15 | In accordance with the former practice but , as I hold , contrary to what should now be the practice under the Children Act 1989 , the justices have provided further reasons extending to three pages . |
| 16 | All the training involves trainee participation with courses lasting from three hours over one day to twelve hours over two days , and was locally based on farms and horticultural holdings . |
| 17 | Or ten men working for three hours , that still gives you thirty men hours . |