Example sentences of "in three [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolutely , says one in three women who took part in our Gallup survey to discover the stresses and strains of juggling it all and how women deal with them . |
| 2 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 3 | In three dimensions it is sufficient to define three primary states of remoteness , transition and inserted ; with perhaps , for simplicity , a number of transition states or a single touching group ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 4 | About one in three claims which do not go to a hearing are dropped by applicants . |
| 5 | The word locks ends in three letters which represent the same two sounds . |
| 6 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 7 | In three minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the wind , along the coast of Treasure Island . |
| 8 | She closed her eyes and in three minutes she was asleep . |
| 9 | Although in three cases it was recognised that the operation was technically unsatisfactory and early rebleeding was encountered in each case , in the rest there appeared to be no obvious explanation for these surgical failures . |
| 10 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 11 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 12 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ In three weeks we will have the best ship , sir , and the finest crew in England . |
| 14 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 15 | Do that in three weeks it 's still not too bad . |
| 16 | This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ? |
| 17 | If you 're doing both then that 's your total income and if you did that in three weeks I would think you 'd be very happy with that . |
| 18 | But for the one in three men who marriage ends in divorce , the overriding feeling is often relief . |
| 19 | Individual issues develop in three parts which form the core of the course . |
| 20 | Blaise Pascal , of Pascal 's triangle , extended the theorem to : If a hexagon is inscribed in a circle , the pairs of opposite sides intersect , respectively , in three points which lie on a straight line . |
| 21 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 22 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 23 | In three months he has n't committed a single offence . |
| 24 | The offices are frequently used for functions , but for the first time in three months there were no special events on Friday . |
| 25 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 26 | In three days I shall rise again . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In three days I will visit you again . |
| 28 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 29 | It covered 100 yards in three seconds which means a speed of nearly 70 miles an hour ! |
| 30 | In three seconds he was tilting it down his throat , ignoring the cups . |