Example sentences of "for three [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 2 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 3 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 4 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 5 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 6 | Nothing further , for three and a half weeks , except simple meals , walks and readings , music and Blanche 's plans for paintings . |
| 7 | Ted will always be remembered at Selhurst Park for his full-back partnership with Fred Dawes for three and a half years before the war , when the pair played 106 matches together in the League and Cup for the Palace . |
| 8 | It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull . |
| 9 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 10 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |
| 11 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
| 12 | For three and a half years these lines would be advanced less than 16km/10mls in either direction , and Allied strategy would be devoted to penetrating this formidable barrier . |
| 13 | I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream ! |
| 14 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 15 | Ms Macdougall , who has been with Hodder for three and a half years , was previously with Barrie & Jenkins and for 17 years at Secker , and has also run her own business . |
| 16 | One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling . |
| 17 | The family moved to Inverness in about 1810 and Joseph attended the Academy there for three and a half years . |
| 18 | Been working for the Law Centre for three and a half years . |
| 19 | ‘ For three and a half thousand pounds ? ’ |
| 20 | Nigel Gibbon has worked for the Government Legal Service in the Customs and Excise Department for three and a half years . |
| 21 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 22 | Inflation is at its lowest level for three and a half years . |
| 23 | in the year to October — the lowest for three and a half years . |
| 24 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 25 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 26 | He was remanded in custody for three and a half weeks . |
| 27 | This five bedroomed victorian house … complete with trout stream anmd stable … has been on the market for three and a half years … the price has been reduced by thirty thousand pounds . |
| 28 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn — his first for three and a half years — and Philip Gray — his first in a Northern Ireland shirt — lifted the hearts of 6,500 fans who had braved the inclement elements . |
| 29 | She suffers from deterioration of the spine , but her family claims she was left sitting on a bed without any back support for three and a half hours . |
| 30 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |