Example sentences of "is [adv] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the pond is only three feet deep at the most , so the rescue did n't overtax her capabilities . ’ |
| 2 | It takes no account of the er er government requirements for er this coming year , and having said that , I I must accept that the overall increase proposed for erm , ninety- four , five , er is only three point three per cent . |
| 3 | Sami is only three days old but already he can almost walk . |
| 4 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 5 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 6 | The war is only three years away . |
| 7 | But in Kashmir the insurgency is only three years old , and while there are cases of extortion and rape by the militants , it will be years before they are rejected as were their counterparts in Punjab . |
| 8 | However , if we are further told that speaker Jane is only three years old , we may , in addition to paying attention to the announcement , consider that it is a remarkable feat for a three-year-old . |
| 9 | Thomas Cottingham is only three years old next week but he knows that there is something wrong with him . |
| 10 | Northampton Hot Air Balloon festival is only three years old , but already it 's one of the biggest events in the country . |
| 11 | And you 're also saying that , that there is some equalization going on because erm the tax rate erm and th th th the top tax rate , at least to begin with , is forty two percent , the bottom tax rate is only three percent . |
| 12 | Newmarket , the home of British racing , is only three miles away . |
| 13 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 14 | The season is only three months old and yet Leeds , Liverpool , Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United are yesterday 's news . |
| 15 | In each case , the proportion attending in one class is approximately three times the proportion attending in the other ; the similarity between the two numbers ( 0.36 and 3.16 ) , however , requires careful inspection to spot . |
| 16 | The input word far would never be correctly recognised , since the sequence ‘ fo ’ is approximately three times more common in English than the di-gram ‘ fa ’ . |
| 17 | His estimate that 150,000 Iraqi Shias had sought refuge in Iran is exactly three times the figure given by the Iranian interior minister ( although the Iranians have no obvious reason to underestimate the number of refugees ) . |
| 18 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 19 | The £100m spent by the tobacco industry on advertising is not three times the budget of the Health Promotion Agency . |
| 20 | ‘ The League appear to be saying that the difference between scrapping and cynical wounding is just three matches . ’ |
| 21 | Some results fit the prediction very well ( e.g. if the numbers of offspring with red eyes is just three times the number with white eyes ) ; some fit it quite well ( e.g. if 61 have red eyes and 23 have white eyes ) , and some would fit it very badly ( e.g. if all but one had white eyes ) . |
| 22 | The centre of the resort is just three minutes walk , whilst the sister hotels are about six ( evening meals are taken in a sister hotel ) . |
| 23 | Pete 's theory that pop music is just three minutes of disposable plastic makes a refreshing change from the self-inflated rubbish so many musicians are wont to spout , but is n't his view of music as a commercial product utterly cynical ? |
| 24 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 25 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 26 | The dash is always THREE times the length of the dot . |
| 27 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 28 | The plan is today to i is still three loads , and we 've got three loads planned for the rest of this week . |
| 29 | The girl from Tampa , Florida , has signed a long-term deal with Mark McCormack 's International Management Group even though she is still three months away from making her senior debut . |
| 30 | Lamb said : ‘ There is still three weeks to go before the team leaves and we will monitor events very carefully between now and then . |