Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course each individual vine yields much less , but the overall production per hectare is significantly higher and it lives up to three times as long , in productive terms , as a grafted vine . |
| 2 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 3 | It holds up to three horses and will be driven to and from London by Mrs Charley from their home just outside Coventry . |
| 4 | When the patient is in bed , he usually uses up to three pillows plus a wedge cushion support for his head and shoulders , to counteract spasticity ( p. 49 ) . |
| 5 | As before , the calculation breaks down into three parts : Stage 1 : Determination of We use equation ( 9 ) to calculate . |
| 6 | I join the queue that stretches back through three carriages , in pursuit of a warm can of Travellers ' Fare lager — the only substance known to man that leaves the body in exactly the same state as it entered . |
| 7 | Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument , Honderich 's thesis boils down to three points . |
| 8 | We understand four SuperSparcs can be combined for a peak performance of 600 MIPS , while SuperSparc 's superscalar engine executes up to three instructions per clock cycle . |
| 9 | He sets out with three members of the Club , Tupman , Snodgrass , and Winkle , to observe the world and record their adventures . |
| 10 | This bottom time display remains on for three seconds , then reverts to normal dive display for 10 seconds , and so the sequence continues . |
| 11 | This clamps down in three ways . |
| 12 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 13 | Jilted Griffin , who faces up to three years in jail , was arrested after tracking Lynn Oddo to a flat in California . |
| 14 | so er , he goes off and he comes back with three samples then , well one of them , it has been in the window as well , but it 's a very definite diamondy shape |
| 15 | Their recording time works out at three years per album . |