Example sentences of "for the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 2 | SSP is not payable for the first three qualifying days in a PIW . |
| 3 | But you never pay SSP for the first three qualifying days of a PIW . |
| 4 | ‘ Everybody is enthusiastic about a house for the first three years . |
| 5 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 6 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 7 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 8 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 9 | For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy . |
| 10 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 11 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 12 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 13 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 14 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 15 | For the first three years , consultants monitored the zones ( for example , Tym and Partners , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | The Department of Industry will pay for the first three years , but after that expects FABMS to pay for itself . |
| 17 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 18 | We bought it , along with 60 acres , and opened a farm shop for the first three or four years , to sell our surplus . |
| 19 | A typical use of one field would be as follows : for the first three years after conversion the field would be pasture , then three years of arable crops would be grown on it , such as wheat , barley and spring beans , then complete the rotation by turning the land over to pasture again . |
| 20 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 21 | An elderly lady admitted crying every night for the first three weeks of her marriage because she missed her sister and widowed mother so much . |
| 22 | For the first three weeks you will be alternating aerobic walking with moderate walking for the first four days each week , followed by one day 's rest . |
| 23 | Results for the first three years of the experiment show that serious injury accidents fell by two-thirds and light injury accidents by one third . |
| 24 | For example , in his chemistry exam John wrote for the first three answers blank , ether and litmus test . |
| 25 | Month led for the first three days — starting the final day six shots clear . |
| 26 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 27 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 29 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 30 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |