Example sentences of "[prep] three [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent . |
| 2 | In this sort of form , no one can compete with Mansell … not even three times world champion Ayrton Senna … he was the best part of three seconds slower than the Englishman . |
| 3 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 4 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 5 | Many Jews and Moslems have accused Christians of being in reality polytheists , arguing that the Christian Trinity in reality represents a belief in three gods rather than one . |
| 6 | Two more symphonies followed , both in three movements rather than the traditional four , though Mozart later added a minuet to No.33 in B flat . |
| 7 | Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " . |
| 8 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) A random plasma glucose concentration between 20.0 and 24.9 mmol/l results in the patient receiving a general practitioner prompt with a covering letter advising attendance at the general practitioner surgery within three days rather than 10 days |
| 10 | He had been hiding out , sleeping rough , until three days ago when he arrived in Paris to look up another man indebted to him . |
| 11 | After the children grew up , the stories remained in a drawer until three years ago when Mr Driscoll , who owned a mail order business , decided to publish them . |
| 12 | To that extent , the Circular received a cautious welcome in the art world , but nothing very concrete occurred until three years later when , on 1 September 1974 , the NCDAD merged with the CNAA . |
| 13 | France wanted to cancel Argentina 's tour this year , eventually compromising by reducing it to three matches only because the Argentine RU said ‘ If we ca n't come to France , you ca n't come here ’ . |
| 14 | But when both TAP1 a and TAP2 a rat transporter genes were transfected into T2 cells , HLA-A2.1 and HLA-B5 expression was restored to levels two to three times higher than on T1 cells . |
| 15 | The MK/PLFA level in the concretion was two to three times higher than in the mud ( Table 1 ) . |
| 16 | But despite current theories that ingested radiation may be 20 times more cancer-forming than external radiation , the new limits have been set at up to three times higher than previously accepted . |
| 17 | Its collaboration with Evans & Sutherland has reportedly resulted in a breakthrough 3D graphics accelerator family that 's two to three times faster than anything SGI currently has . |
| 18 | In Kent the coastal water is up to three metres higher than it should be . |
| 19 | One of those is a death penalty campaign which was a very big one about two , two to three years ago when we focused particularly on , on the United States and all the other major countries which erm which er used the best penalty to fairly large extent , er do we have anything Catherine on that tonight ? . |
| 20 | It ended over three months later when the emigrant ship Jerusalem completed its run from Plymouth Sound and docked at Sydney Harbour . |
| 21 | Till three days later when she returned |