Example sentences of "it [was/were] three [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was three minutes to Overtures and Beginners . |
| 2 | If his car is good , which it was three times in the last two seasons at Benetton , he will win . |
| 3 | Christmas came and went , and it was three months since Thornton 's answering-machine ultimatum . |
| 4 | It was three weeks to the competition , five weeks to the end of his school career , long periods of time by his reckoning . |
| 5 | When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right . |
| 6 | It was three miles to Jane Ashton 's place . |
| 7 | By the time I arrived in Berlin , with a large box of the cactus I had made in my studio from wire , plaster impregnated bandage and nails , it was three days before the private view on 14 June . |
| 8 | It was three days after — Yes , the fifteenth . |
| 9 | This she was able to do , but the evaluators found that many of the books had never been opened and that most of them bore no issue dates , even though it was three years since their acquisition . |
| 10 | Then the shipyards sank without trace , and it was three years on the dole . |