Example sentences of "about three [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 2 | In rats pretreated with TCV-309 plus caerulein , the content of pancreatic platelet activating factor was significantly ( p<0.05 ) smaller ( 4.5 ( 1.6 ) pg/ 100 mg ) than in those treated with caerulein alone but about three times higher than in saline treated rats . |
| 3 | The radial shields are slightly less than half the disk radius and about three times longer than broad . |
| 4 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 5 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 6 | Climb up sunshine mountain I first learned this song about three years ago when I was doing a show for some of London 's police at Faringdon 's restaurant in London . |
| 7 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 8 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |