Example sentences of "three [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven bookings — four for Millwall and three for the Hammers — reflected the importance both clubs attach to the fixture . |
| 2 | Each night , five men were needed , three for the gates and two to move between them , so the responsibility was heavy . |
| 3 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 4 | In the western counties , three of the sites with pavements depicting Orpheus — Newton St. Loe , Woodchester , and Withington-also provide evidence for comparable assortments of geometric mosaics . |
| 5 | Evidence of a decline in nitrates is less clear , with a significant decrease at only three of the sites , although data from 24 suggest a downward trend . |
| 6 | Petrosyan and a number of others arrested by Soviet forces ; three of the hostages were freed on Aug. 16 and the release of the others was agreed on Aug. 20 . |
| 7 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 8 | In Molly 's absence Kay Evans presented certificates to three of the teachers who qualified in 1980 and who were unable to attend the last qualified teachers ' meeting . |
| 9 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |
| 10 | Er that is that at least three of the articles are talking to quoting different organisations er suggested that the playhouse theatre trust had been recommended to do something about their marketing er a at least two years ago if not longer ago erm certainly it 's my knowledge er they have not employed specialists to that they have not employed a specialist to that indeed since the last er appointed publicity officer left , that person that post has not been er refilled er could I ask the theatre trust why they have chosen not taken that recommendation seriously ? |
| 11 | A fight started and Waller wounded three of the youths , said Stephen Williamson QC , prosecuting . |
| 12 | Three of the youths , aged 16-20 , wore black duffel coats with the hoods pulled up to hide their faces . |
| 13 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Worse than that the home team was behind in all but three of the matches on the course when a dramatic change in fortune occurred which completely transformed the match . |
| 15 | Three of the instances of maladministration related to the licensing of the Chesh ire-based savings group in 1984/85 , where the Ombudsman felt that there was enough evidence to have ordered Barlow Clowes to cease op erations . |
| 16 | He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner . |
| 17 | And three of the girls have gone down with it too . |
| 18 | I just saw three of the girls go in . |
| 19 | Three of the sons followed military or naval careers , two attaining the rank of admiral . |
| 20 | They had six sons and a daughter , three of the sons spending all or most of their working lives in the service of the Church Times . |
| 21 | About two to three of the residents go to the day centre on a daily basis . |
| 22 | But even if he knew he was speaking with his own voice , rachmaninov , the eternal doubter , was n't happy with his structural abilities : he authorised the excision of three of the variations and the coda . |
| 23 | So three of the punters , from Fawdon , Newcastle , hitched a lift to the Ripon race to put on £400 in bets — but they got stuck in a jam and arrived too late . |
| 24 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 25 | Only three of the houses are permanent homes of locals , the rest holiday houses . |
| 26 | So we got everyone together here the bank manager , was Mr then , Barclays Bank we got two or three of the industrialists all of the members that were prepared to help and we started from there . |
| 27 | Much of our most detailed source on the raids of c.980-1016 was written early in Cnut 's reign and survives in three of the sets of annals ( now denoted C , D and E ) known collectively as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 28 | He did this by making three of the sentences , each for 14 years , run consecutively instead of concurrently . |
| 29 | Three of the fingers on his right hand were undamaged , but both arms had been crushed . |
| 30 | Three of the coffins arrived at the Star of the Sea Church together . |