Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
| 3 | Surgeons had to put three stitches in a deep wound in his shoulder . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 6 | Firemen had to release three passengers , and three fire engines , including an emergency tender , attended the scene . |