Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 2 | To illustrate the construction of a price index , suppose that we have selected an appropriate basket of goods and that , for simplicity , it contains only three items : bread , milk and eggs . |
| 3 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
| 4 | It takes either three men working at ten hours . |
| 5 | It takes about three hours to make a basic card , but can take weeks to produce the more exotic patterns . |
| 6 | They actually just feed this information , it takes about three minutes on average to input the data off this into the computer , and it goes straight into the mainframe computer . |
| 7 | It takes about three days to get a call out and I remember DeFries did n't answer any of David 's calls because I think he knew what was going on . |
| 8 | I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be . |
| 9 | They say it takes about three weeks for a cure to work , and most Baden packages are based on this , although some are streamlined to 14 days . |
| 10 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 11 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |