Example sentences of "it was three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I would say it was three foot six .
2 It was three minutes to Overtures and Beginners .
3 Now three minutes I told you it was three minutes did n't I ?
4 Did n't I tell you it was three minutes ?
5 From from the from the pit bottom underground it was three mile to walk .
6 But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary .
7 It was three pounds , in Mark One .
8 lived in that house there and it was three shillings a week , I think it was , two up and two down .
9 No , it was three horses , five pound bet ,
10 It was three feet long , a greeny-brown ribbon with a yellow diamond on the throat .
11 The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense .
12 If his car is good , which it was three times in the last two seasons at Benetton , he will win .
13 It was three times as high as he was .
14 It was three times what she 'd been expecting .
15 Three times a day , well twice a day as we were young , as we get older it was three times , it means we have to go to evening chapel as well .
16 McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council .
17 It was three hours ’ sleep — maybe five on a good day . ’
18 He said it was three hours too long and was full of boring statistics and graphics .
19 The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so .
20 It was three centuries and the Hundred Years War indeed before the English lost it , in which time Bayonne did well , not least as a centre of the wine trade with England equal in prosperity to Bordeaux .
21 Your customer 's staff level is about half what it was three months ago .
22 It was three months before she and her baby could fly home .
23 It was three months before she and her baby could fly home .
24 Christmas came and went , and it was three months since Thornton 's answering-machine ultimatum .
25 It was three months
26 And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry .
27 It was three parts torn away in any case and I figured that neither you nor the US Air Force would have any further use for it .
28 It was three weeks to the competition , five weeks to the end of his school career , long periods of time by his reckoning .
29 When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right .
30 When they served her with a stallion you see , it was three weeks elapsed then before she if you did n't go and foal with that service it was three weeks elapsed afore you game again .
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