Example sentences of "[vb pp] for three [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 2 | ENGINEER Terry Higgins dropped himself right in it when he rescued a teenager trapped for three days in a freezing bog . |
| 3 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 4 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 5 | And this case is adjourned for three weeks in order that a computer printout will can be obtained . |
| 6 | This case is adjourned for three weeks in order get a printout can be obtained . |
| 7 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 8 | A man was jailed for three years in Cardiff for burglary . |
| 9 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |
| 10 | Will he now confirm , since he seems to regard all problems as being entirely domestic , that over the second half of the last year industrial production fell in the United States , in Japan and elsewhere and that Germany 's gross domestic product has now declined for three quarters in succession and Germany is in recession ? |
| 11 | It had first been established in 1979 , and was renewed for three years in 1989. * Evidence has emerged of continued " pirate whaling " in the south Atlantic . |
| 12 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 13 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |