Example sentences of "three [prep] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandlikova was number three for four years between 1983 and 1987 , taken to such heights by two successes in Australia and wins in the French and the U.S. Opens . |
| 2 | The latter would be about three of four inches away from the outer , transparent skin and its surface would be mirrored or coated in some reflective material . |
| 3 | The National Audit Office ( NAO ) complimented BAS on the three of four projects on the general quality of its research . |
| 4 | He introduced his team , designer Chloe Obolensky ; Marius Constant , who , in distilling Debussy 's score , had realised the two-piano version with which for many years Debussy had entertained his friends ; representatives of Brook 's three casts , and three of four pianists . |
| 5 | For three of four months I could n't think or do anything else . |
| 6 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 7 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 8 | And it started on my back quite a bit , three of four days ago , well it 's not just as bad but my arms are real bad . |
| 9 | Three of four days . |
| 10 | You can only see three of four fields and if they all look bad your morale will suffer . |
| 11 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 12 | Three of four patients who died in the intervening period survived >5 years after transplantation . |
| 13 | Three of four patients with the highest faecal bile acid losses had normal or near normal fat excretions of 4.5 , 6.9 , and 7.1 g/24 hours . |
| 14 | Faecal bile acid excretion decreased in three of four patients from 105.2 ( 13.1 ) mg to 84.5 ( 23.3 ) mg bile acid/g stool/24 hours×10 - 2 ( p=NS ; Fig 5 ) . |
| 15 | In conclusion we have found a persistent tachygastria in the fasting state in three of four patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with a known neuropathic basis for their condition , and in none of 15 control patients , none of three patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction as a result of muscle disease , and none of four with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with an unknown basis . |
| 16 | If your design is in three of four colours , then the amount of memory needed is almost doubled . |
| 17 | Almost three in four women had ruined clothing or tights and stockings by ‘ catching them ’ on furniture , and two in five blamed badly-designed office equipment for the damage . |
| 18 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 19 | These verbs had been selected in groups of three from four categories : dynamic verbs of activity ; dynamic momentary verbs ; stative verbs of inert perception ; and stative relational verbs . |
| 20 | The Institution 's structure was then expanded from three to four Divisions , and building surveying was singled out for the first time , and referred to as IIIB ( Division III , Building ) . |
| 21 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 22 | All Rangers have the opportunity to ride for a minimum of half an hour once a fortnight , however , they can also participate in picnic rides , lasting three to four hours , as well as one hour-long evening rides . |
| 23 | Even my smallest works take three to four hours to complete . |
| 24 | Certainly , one plus point is that you can record three to four hours of material onto the one tape . |
| 25 | Even my smallest works take three to four hours to complete . |
| 26 | IN THE Autumn of 1992 , Connecticut-based Turbine Engine Services [ TES ] brought a continuous electricity supply to an isolated town in Eastern Malaysia — the first location in that part of the country not to endure three to four hours a day of blackouts on a regular basis . |
| 27 | Maria José Beraldi Andersen from São Paulo University estimates that the average child spends three to four hours in front of the TV daily . |
| 28 | Pressure for his removal had come from trade unions ; Pérez had made 3,000 workers redundant and had failed to improve on the three to four hours of electricity the country received daily . |
| 29 | ‘ If previous form is anything to go by , we 'll be here for three to four hours . ’ |
| 30 | Well , three hours , three to four hours . |