Example sentences of "it [verb] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model of style proposed here is " pluralist " in that it allows for three distinct levels ( semantic , syntactic , graphological ) at which stylistic choices can be made . |
| 2 | It burned for three days . |
| 3 | It rained for three days . |
| 4 | It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull . |
| 5 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 6 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 7 | It snowed for three days without stopping , great cotton wool flakes , falling from a dark sky and swirling so thickly and blindingly that Mr Evans actually said the children need not use the privy in the yard in the daytime but could go up to the bathroom whenever they needed to . |
| 8 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 9 | It continued for three days . |
| 10 | It lasted for three hours or more . |