Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 2 | Representatives of fishing nations have ended three weeks of talks in New York with agreement to hold more talks on ways of preventing the collapse of marine fish stocks because of overfishing . |
| 3 | Marked animals have survived three years as adults , so this figure may be an under-estimate . |
| 4 | THE BRILLIANT CORNERS have added three dates to their tour , at Birmingham St Annes Centre on November 15 , Bath Pavilion ( with The Moonflowers ) 22 and Harrogate ( venue tbc ) 29 . |
| 5 | THE BRILLIANT CORNERS have added three dates to their tour , at Birmingham St Annes Centre on November 15 , Bath Pavilion ( with The Moonflowers ) 22 and Harrogate ( venue tbc ) 29 . |
| 6 | Moore contended that most moralists have confused three questions . |
| 7 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 8 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
| 9 | Two composers have had three commissions supported — the young Edinburgh composer , Kenneth Dempster , who will write works for the Hebrides Ensemble and the Leda Piano Trio , and the established Glasgow composer and folk musician , Edward McGuire , who has commissions from the Chamber Group of Scotland , the Silver Duo , and from the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival , for a work with local children . |
| 10 | ‘ Two Turkish teams have had three players sent off in the same European match . |
| 11 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
| 12 | Empirical studies have taken three forms : ( a ) controlled experiments , usually observing how selected persons respond to higher benefits ( negative taxes ) ; ( b ) questionnaires based on random samples , and ( c ) econometric studies using data on how people have responded in the past to tax changes . |
| 13 | Israeli warplanes have attacked three sites in eastern Lebanon to avenge a bomb attack on soldiers for which the pro-Iranian Hezbollah has claimed responsibility . |
| 14 | Surgeons had to put three stitches in a deep wound in his shoulder . |
| 15 | The episode of the divan on the stairs had occurred three days ago . |
| 16 | Four years before the Americans had won three games to one on the first morning . |
| 17 | Some carnivore scats have been reported from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of East Turkana in Kenya , and analysis of one of these scats has yielded three species of mammal , two reptiles and one bird ( Jacobs , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 19 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 20 | POLICE have praised three people who detained a suspect following a smash and grab raid at an Essex jeweller 's shop . |
| 21 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 22 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 23 | TROUBLED rock stars Guns N' Roses have scrapped three shows on their current world tour after their support act 's singer got badly burned . |
| 24 | The Treaty was not specifically concerned with conservation , but from recommendations discussed at its biannual Consultative Meetings have arisen three conventions that implement conservation , the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Flora and Fauna , the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals , and the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources . |
| 25 | The researchers have found three occasions on which they claim the signal in the detectors is consistent with the decay of a proton . |
| 26 | Firemen had to release three passengers , and three fire engines , including an emergency tender , attended the scene . |
| 27 | Antarctic mosses have survived three years in darkness at -15°C ( conditions that might occur under long-lasting snow-drifts ) and grow readily in the miniature greenhouses that form under thin snow or translucent ice . |
| 28 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |