Example sentences of "three [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
2 | Three or four a day . |
3 | The second consequence was to limit the number of executions by the early 1960s to no more than three or four a year , so bringing nearer the prospect of total abolition by the classic , if inglorious , means of English penal reform : diminution , disuse , abandonment . |
4 | Spectra-Physics of California is delivering 150 carbon dioxide lasers , each capable of delivering 1–2 kW , at a rate of three or four a month to a Japanese industrial equipment firm , Amada . |
5 | Er they would n't have you as a bound apprentice because unfortunately , although the wages were so low when you was being an apprentice , three and six a year , then six and six year , and then er I think , thirteen shilling , the third year . |
6 | actually but Well when we came in forty odd forty odd years ago it was twenty three and six a week . |