Example sentences of "three [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Place three of the wider ones on top of each other to form the first tower .
2 Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization .
3 Three of the smaller regionals ( Border , Grampian and Ulster ) were not even opposed .
4 The Seychelles fody is also a very rare bird , being confined to only three of the smaller islands in the Seychelles group .
5 The main aim of Franz Coetzee 's intriguing study For Party or Country is to explain this phenomenon through an examination of the outlook and activities of three of the larger groups : the Navy League ( NL ) , the Tariff Reform League ( TRL ) , and the Anti-Socialist Union ( ASU ) .
6 Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’
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