Example sentences of "three [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 2 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that the majority of the great London families survived there for no more than three generations in the male line , and it was certainly rare for men to prefer city life to that of the country ( 104 , p.205 ) . |
| 4 | The process of the development from parable to allegory can be clearly seen when a comparison is made of the three accounts in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 5 | The Dutch club , who won the Champions ' Cup three times in the early Seventies , were banned yesterday for at least two years as a result of crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their UEFA Cup match against Austria Vienna in Amsterdam nine days ago . |
| 6 | Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie . |
| 7 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 8 | Stand-in goalkeeper Graham Mitchell was only called into action three times in the second half , but on two of those occasions he was collecting the ball from the net behind him . |
| 9 | Egypt revolted from Persia three times in the fifth century , proving that these Greek and Jewish garrisons were needed . |
| 10 | The lead changed hands three times in the final seven minutes ; England scrum-half Dewi Morris failed to end the match when he missed a touch kick and when the ball was delivered back to drop-kick expert Davies , Orrell 's apparent victory was transformed into misery . |
| 11 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 12 | His crisp jabbing had Gary Newton of Teams instantly on the defensive , and Exley followed up with tremendous hooks that had Newton down three times in the first round before the referee stepped in . |
| 13 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |
| 14 | The word ‘ pioneer ’ only occurs three times in the New Testament and the most important occurrence is found in Hebrews 12.2 . |
| 15 | Three times in the latter part of September 1917 the Committee was warned by the union of the danger of delay in setting adequate and standard rates of wages for all seamen ; three times on the advice of the Liverpool Shipowners it temporised . |
| 16 | ‘ York had applied for reelection three times in the four previous years before Denis and I joined the club . |
| 17 | Three times in the next ten days the beacons passed news from point to point — from Rubha Nan Gall across the Sound of Mull to Castle Nan Con , back to Aros , across to Ardtornish and back again to Duart — that the threat that had first been hinted in Luch 's arrival had taken solid shape . |
| 18 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 19 | The turnout in Germany as a whole was 77.8 per cent ; that in western Germany was 78.6 per cent ( as compared with 84.3 per cent in 1987 — see pp. 35014-15 ) ; that in eastern Germany ( where voters had gone to the polls three times in the previous nine months — see pp. 37300-03 ; 37467 ; 37762 ) was 74.7 per cent . |
| 20 | Pipe has won the Chepstow race three times in the past four years and his possible squad for this year 's renewal on December 28 is Bonanza Boy ( winner in 1988 and 1989 ) , Run For Free , Rushing Wild , Miinnehoma , Chatam and Cushinstown . |
| 21 | This is due in part to the fact that President Ibrahim Babangida has already postponed the promised handover to civilian government three times in the past three years . |
| 22 | Is the Leader of the House aware that three times in the past 24 hours the Chancellor of the Exchequer has refused to answer direct questions about the Government 's plans for further increases in VAT ? |
| 23 | Johnson has met the IAAF 60m standard of 6.8sec three times in the past two months . |
| 24 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 25 | If his car is good , which it was three times in the last two seasons at Benetton , he will win . |
| 26 | Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years . |
| 27 | CAMBRIDGE struck three times in the last 17 minutes to earn a point . |
| 28 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |
| 29 | Such is his importance that in order for him to become a minister again , the Government invoked a short-cut used only three times in the last 300 years . |
| 30 | Yorick had attempted suicide three times in the last four years ; and the last attempt had nearly succeeded . |