Example sentences of "in three [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 2 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 3 | His interest was particularly in chemical investigations ; he devoted special attention to the chemical analysis of vegetable substances , his findings on which were published in three articles in Philosophical Transactions in 1674 . |
| 4 | IBM mainframes were made in three locations in the world — Poughkeepsie in New York State , Yasu in Japan and Montpellier in France : |
| 5 | Even among men diagnosed as having clinical prostate cancer only one in three dies of the disease . |
| 6 | In some countries as many as one child in three dies before reaching the age of five . |
| 7 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 8 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 9 | Fly-half Adrian Davies topped 50 League points in three matches with a try , two penalties and four conversions . |
| 10 | Well it 's it works best with people who =r mildly depressed in fact , l less so with very severely depressed people , but that is the great majority of people , one in three women with children under the age of five are depressed , for example , so it 's a huge advantage for them to be able to take it and not have side effects . |
| 11 | One in three women over the age of 80 at some time have a fracture of the hip . |
| 12 | Because one in three women in Britain have fine flyaway hair , we 've introduced new Wella Balsam Hair Restructurant . |
| 13 | The fast-acting tranquillizing drug already used in three instances of doping has been found in another racehorse . |
| 14 | In Three Coins in the Fountain ( 1954 ) , the Roman backgrounds are the whole point of the story , not just for the audience but also for the Romanian-born director Jean Negulesco ( Romanian is the only Latin language of Eastern Europe ) and , most important , for the three American girls ( Dorothy McGuire , Jean Peters , and Maggie McNamara ) who throw coins in the massively theatrical Trevi fountain in the hope of romance rather than simply of returning to Rome — which , indeed , gave its very name to romance . |
| 15 | The men , rooted to the ground in three feet of fresh snow , had been unable to move quickly enough , and the boar , finding its retreat blocked , had gone crazy and attacked indiscriminately . |
| 16 | The previous three landings attempted using the integral landing skid resulted in three sets of broken rotors ! |
| 17 | But subsection ( 3 ) then provides that such duty shall not apply in three sets of circumstances . |
| 18 | Carl-Uwe Steeb , a local resident who defeated Leconte in three sets on Monday , gave John McEnroe an unfriendly welcome , beating the New Yorker 7-5 , 7-6 . |
| 19 | Nicolas Pereira of Venezuela won the only other match beating American Alex O'Brien in three sets by 6–7 , 6–3 , 7–6 . |
| 20 | From Pokrovsk railway lines ran in three directions through famine areas , but in January 1922 there were only one locomotive in the yards , and that took up to seventeen days to cover less than 150 miles . |
| 21 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 22 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 23 | The study was carried out in three subdivisions of different police forces . |
| 24 | Legato has made multiple entries in three sections of WIN.INI , under [ Extensions ] , [ Embedding ] and [ Legato ] . |
| 25 | In the previous week Jewish graves in three cemeteries in Stockholm had been desecrated on three successive nights . |
| 26 | The underground complex had been built in summer , the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock . |
| 27 | In his bronze Head , for example ( a more important work , which will be discussed below ) he dealt in three dimensions with the problems he had faced in the figure paintings at Horta de San Juan . |
| 28 | The sensor arm allows them to watch their manoeuvres live in three dimensions on a video monitor . |
| 29 | Our brains were designed to understand hunting and gathering , mating and child-rearing : a world of medium-sized objects moving in three dimensions at moderate speeds . |
| 30 | The sensation of moving freely in three dimensions in the clear sunlit water that corals favour is , in itself , a bewitching and other-worldly one . |