Example sentences of "the [adj] three [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest three brothers he hardly knew ; he had n't grown up with them . |
| 2 | In the following three chapters I will be examining their significance in three broad contexts : family and community ; the social divisions brought about by age , class , race and gender ; and the criminal justice system and crime control policy . |
| 3 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 4 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
| 5 | Which of these three numbers is the most appropriate depends upon which of the following three statements we think is nearest the truth : |
| 6 | In discussing the previous three systems it was possible to say something about their knowledge sources and data structures in isolation from the processing performed over them . |
| 7 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 8 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 9 | Well , the first three albums I ever did , I was taking a lot of LSD . |
| 10 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 11 | IF YOU WERE PM , WHAT WOULD BE THE FIRST THREE THINGS YOU 'D DO ? |
| 12 | For the first three firms we can use the Gordon growth model ( 6.27 ) , while for the last firm we use the supernormal growth model ( 6.38 ) . |
| 13 | For the first three sentences I done , I was still with Desmond . |
| 14 | For the first three weeks you will be alternating aerobic walking with moderate walking for the first four days each week , followed by one day 's rest . |
| 15 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 16 | We got er we , well after the first three months , the first three months we , we were s what they call student nurses . |
| 17 | After shooting the woman from the council house and her baby , and his mother , Larry had walked into Bishops Linctus and shot dead the first three people he met , wounding several others . |
| 18 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 19 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |
| 20 | After the first three days she takes a purificatory bath , and then is given a complete mini-bridal trousseau by her father or , in his absence , her brother . |
| 21 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 22 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 23 | They 'll be given the same three options I should imagine . |
| 24 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |
| 25 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 26 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 27 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 28 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 29 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 30 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |