Example sentences of "three [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it .
2 One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen
3 Only three subjects had a feeling of wind before a period of intermittent need for defecation .
4 Three patients had a history of previous bleeding from ulcers of the duodenum or stomach , one patient experienced anastomosal bleeding with a history of gastric resection , one patient had a Dieulafoy 's lesion treated conservatively in another hospital with recurrent bleeding episodes within one year before admission .
5 Of 169 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy referred to the orthopaedic muscle clinic at the Royal Manchester Children 's Hospital , 117 already had a scoliosis at the time of referral ; three patients had a curve between 80° and 100° and eight patients had a curve in excess of 100° .
6 When we launched our Health and Beauty Club last year , we discovered that one in three members has a hair problem — and many simply did n't know what to do about it .
7 All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births .
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