Example sentences of "three [noun pl] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's got three ducks and a drake apparently . |
| 2 | Her other current projects include featured soloist on Manfred Mann 's latest album Plains Music , composing a new work for three saxophones and a chamber orchestra and concerts and workshops in Britain and abroad . |
| 3 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 4 | The three million unemployed may consider the acquisitive Eubank 's £4 million earnings in his 33 unbeaten fights and his ownership of three houses and a block of flats in Brighton equally obscene . |
| 5 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 6 | Walton married , in 1943 , Helen Robson ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 7 | He married , in 1958 , Helen , daughter of Lt-Col R P T ffrench ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 8 | , Sir William Alexander ( 1854–1914 ) , founder of the Boys ' Brigade , was born 27 October 1854 at Pennyland House , near Thurso , Caithness , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of David Smith of Pennyland , a director of the Labuan Coal Company in China , and his wife Harriet , daughter of Alexander Fraser , merchant , of Glasgow . |
| 9 | Although three sons and a daughter survived infancy , only his daughter , Sarah , and second son , John , survived him , the latter to pursue a successful career in the City , centred on the Levant trade . |
| 10 | He married 17 November 1631 his cousin Mary Darley , daughter of Sir Richard Darley JP , of Buttercrambe , Yorkshire ( died c .1654 ) , having three sons and a daughter . |
| 11 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |
| 12 | , Thomas Gwynn ( 1871–1949 ) , poet , scholar , and writer , was born at Gwyndy Uchaf farm , Betws-yn-Rhos , Denbighshire , 10 October 1871 , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of Isaac Jones , farmer , and his wife Jane Roberts . |
| 13 | He left three sons and a daughter . |
| 14 | Ludo and I hold our clubs ; they hold three chains and a knife . |
| 15 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 16 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 17 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 18 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 19 | Similarly , the approach angle is a lot shallower than for other jets — about two degrees , judged by the PAPIs showing three reds and a pink . |
| 20 | There were huge quantities of them , and I ended up filling three vases and a couple of Stuart 's beer-mugs . |
| 21 | He was a small farmer , with three acres and a stone house , plastered walls within . |
| 22 | Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation . |
| 23 | There were three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs . |
| 24 | The first had three bedrooms and a gym — a must for Geoffrey — on a 21ft wide , 107ft deep plot in Hampstead . |
| 25 | The forty foot tower is now a home — complete with three bedrooms and a garage . |
| 26 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 27 | Forward rates can be quoted for various delivery dates but the most common time intervals are one month , three months and a year . |
| 28 | ‘ Between about three months and a year , I should say . ’ |
| 29 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |
| 30 | ‘ Between about three months and a year , I should say . ’ |