Example sentences of "it [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 2 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 3 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 4 | It rose three storeys high from the cobble-stoned street , its pale stone exterior clear and uncluttered . |
| 5 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 6 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 7 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 8 | It comprised three representatives of the NPFL ( including the commission chair , Yonduach Monokomana ) and two from Sawyer 's Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) . |
| 9 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 10 | It faced three groupings of competitors across the world and members of each grouping were reorganizing . |
| 11 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 12 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 13 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |
| 14 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 15 | It developed three algorithms that automatically analyse the program 's machine code , create an intermediate architecture neutral representation of the program and shift executable code to the new environment . |
| 16 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 17 | It rang three times . |
| 18 | It included three paedophile books called Ben and a magazine named The Stud Boys . |
| 19 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 20 | The National Party 's poor showing in the elections — it lost three seats to the ALP — came despite the economic problems affecting much of rural Australia . |
| 21 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 22 | It incorporated three devices aimed at automatically or semi-automatically improving retrieval . |
| 23 | It took three pints of home brew , each , before we stopped scratching . |
| 24 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 25 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 26 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 27 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 28 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 29 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 30 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |