Example sentences of "of three [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've to watch it for a maximum of three minutes you dad says . |
| 2 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 3 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 4 | So I 've got two lots of three pounds I 've got six pounds altogether . |
| 5 | A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth . |
| 6 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 7 | Over a period of three weeks they were shunted back and forth between Germany , London and Cairo until the Home Office granted them temporary admission . |
| 8 | Within the space of three weeks we were to experience two of the most important ceremonies of any legionnaire 's contract : the moment when he was presented with his white képi , and the celebrations surrounding Christmas . |
| 9 | And in the space of three weeks I think the baby 's used up all her fat because she 's now just really , really pregnant . |
| 10 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 11 | At the end of three days he went to his grandfather , and said , " Grandfather , I am going to climb the mountain and find a place where I can get some peace and quiet . |
| 12 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 13 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 14 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 15 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 16 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 17 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 18 | If at the end of three months you decide that this is too elaborate for you or you 'd like to , if you need to see a week at a glance , er , you just call my office , send back the pages you have n't used , and we would exchange those er , for the equivalent in a different format . |
| 19 | This can be restored by collecting litter , but even on the fastest of three levels it should n't be a problem . |
| 20 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |