Example sentences of "three [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way the nest can , as it were , take three breaths a minute . |
| 2 | The three production sites ( two in Texas , one in Japan ) doing three shifts a day , will pass the 100,000 mark this quarter . |
| 3 | The Board itself involved at least three meetings a year , plus briefings with the secretary , membership of ad hoc meetings and working parties , and the preparation and conduct of visits ( as Chairman he initially went on all visits ) . |
| 4 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |
| 5 | Chad Varah 's name has become synonymous with the Samaritans , which he founded in 1953 after learning that there were three suicides a day in London alone . |
| 6 | ‘ If you have three suicides a week . ’ |
| 7 | Jimmy White has been world No 2 and three times a finalist . |
| 8 | A ventilation system that 's capable of changing the cabin air three times a minute . |
| 9 | It 's all ‘ Cherish ’ and ‘ Three Times a Lady ’ and ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ , and everyone takes to the floor , clutching and fondling , their hands lightly patting the buttocks of their partner . |
| 10 | System state is recorded three times a second , the data being preprocessed on the Archimedes before being passed to the college VAX cluster for statistical analysis . |
| 11 | His recommendation to other caterers is to consider a unit with an internal filter system simply because it means oil can be re-used , maybe three times a day . |
| 12 | There are various reasons for this misconception ; men are obliged to pray three times a day , and women are exempt from time-related duties , possibly because their loyalties would conflict with running a home and looking after children . |
| 13 | For example , do you find you eat once , twice , three times a day ? |
| 14 | Reduce sugary snacks to three times a day . |
| 15 | Some doctors used the instrument two or three times a day , six per cent did not carry one in their bag and half had used them fewer than 12 times in the past six months . |
| 16 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 17 | Take a little three times a day . |
| 18 | He himself lived off fruit with sugar , yoghurt , cereals , eggs , instant coffee , and he often ate toast three times a day . |
| 19 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 20 | Then I ‘ doctored ’ some ready-made beeswax ointment with essences of lavender and peppermint which I advised Elizabeth to apply liberally , two or three times a day . |
| 21 | I gave Howard some lavender essence to apply neat ( one or two drops ) to the fissures between his toes , three times a day . |
| 22 | Dosage : For general conditions , take a wineglassful three times a day every four hours . |
| 23 | How to use : 6–8 drops in a small teacupful of warm water two or three times a day . |
| 24 | If you opt for the once a week regime , apply the oils three times a day if possible , otherwise once a day is enough . |
| 25 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 26 | Probably the remedy to try first , two or three times a day especially if there is a thick , milky-white , bland discharge that does not irritate or only very little . |
| 27 | One , twice or three times a day . |
| 28 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 29 | One teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a glass of water three times a day , or potassium citrate ( sachets can be bought from the pharmacist ) help to make the urine less acid . |
| 30 | Cast them upon their own resources , and they 'd be on Valium three times a day before you could say Hoffmann-La Roche . |