Example sentences of "for the [adj] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air/Sea Rescue training school at RAF Mountbatten , Plymouth provided the type of training course relevant to our needs and they kindly consented to a selected few of our senior crew members attending the school for the necessary three months session . |
| 2 | Yet where the two do not like one another or the chemistry is wrong , the relationship will remain distant for the entire three years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While the Secretary of State 's announcement is good news for Yarrow and the Clyde , it is none the less a disappointment for the other three shipyards that submitted tenders , not least VSEL in Barrow , although the order for the 4.5 inch gun would be welcome . |
| 5 | For the other three bodies the problem was the same : either the districts ( for Primitive Methodists ) or the individual chapels ( for Congregationalists and Baptists ) allowed men into the ministry who had no academic qualifications . |
| 6 | Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places . |
| 7 | No further information on institution to be attended was available for the remaining three students . |
| 8 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 9 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
| 10 | Medical treatment was considered only for the remaining three patients . |
| 11 | Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies . |
| 12 | On top of that , for the remaining three days each week , several of its 23 permanent commissions beaver away at the mountain of legislation that is being thrust before them . |
| 13 | The prevalence of the prone sleeping position was relatively constant at 41% until August 1990 , was 24% for the next 12 months , and was about 8% for the final three months of the study . |
| 14 | However , this does not necessarily prove that direct taxes are more efficient in economic terms than indirect taxes , for the following three reasons : |
| 15 | In the report of Souquet et al , when endosonography was considered normal , no recurrence was observed for the following three months , but a recurrence was usually confirmed immediately or within three months when endosonography indicated infiltration by tumour . |
| 16 | The protection for losing authorities ( for the following three years ) will be paid for by the Exchequer , ’ Mr Hunt said , answering a demand for central funding repeated in the debate . |
| 17 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 18 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 19 | The Government does not have to pay young people the paltry allowance of £29.50 per week for the normal three months between Easter and the summer leaving date . |
| 20 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 23 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 24 | The Londoner has starred at the Upper Malone arena for the past three meetings and his clashes with arch rival Colin Jackson have been something special . |
| 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 | The point nominally at issue was the one which had spasmodically rent the Conservative Party for the past three decades — the tariff question . |
| 27 | Chemotherapeutic management of advanced colorectal cancer has been a challenge to medical oncologists for the past three decades . |
| 28 | Also on that side were the late John Joe Sands , Martin Walsh , the Down team doctor for the past three decades , and Malachy Finnegan , a former President of the College . |
| 29 | ‘ You bastards have been over in France for the past three months , sitting in the sunshine and screwing all those French bints . ’ |
| 30 | A balance-of-payments surplus of £206 m. in October meant a surplus of £758 m. for the past three months , much helped by North Sea oil cutting the fuel deficit , and a strong pound . |