Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me . |
| 2 | When I did this course ( in 1988 at Lewisham College ) I went to tutorials for three hours twice a week , at which theory was taught , and we engaged in teaching exercises assessed by our peers and tutors . |
| 3 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 4 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 5 | Three weeks nearly a month Sue mate . |
| 6 | Three days later a wind came up and revived the fire which spread to and damaged the plaintiff 's land . |
| 7 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 8 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 9 | Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applauded as he kicked a young would-be pickpocket to death . |
| 10 | Three years ago a group of have-nots , led by Mexico , blocked agreement on stiffer NPT rules for trade in nuclear materials because the nuclear powers would not agree to ban tests . |
| 11 | Three years ago a study by officials at the Department of Industry apparently backed the idea . |
| 12 | Three years later a branch was opened off this from Crewe Toll eastwards to Leith station , sited near Lindsay Road . |
| 13 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 14 | Three years later a locomotive crashed , and they were called in to rebuild it . |
| 15 | If the plaintiff satisfies these three requirements then a duty will be owed . |