Example sentences of "three [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh win number three that a pelican |
| 2 | Twenty nine for three and a go |
| 3 | Three and a go , cos there 's |
| 4 | five fo , for three and a go . |
| 5 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 6 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
| 7 | Hudson and Kuiper extended their stand for an hour until Kuiper , battling for form , was caught behind off Patrick Patterson for a laboured , but vital 34 spanning three and a quarter hours . |
| 8 | It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull . |
| 9 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 10 | Over three and a quarter hours , in almost medically precise measures , about 800 Windy kids and myself are , by turn , massaged , soothed , picked up and shaken , sexually aroused and punched repeatedly about the face . |
| 11 | And then , occasionally , once in a blue moon , music gives us what we want , and we quite complaining … for about , say , three and a quarter hours . |
| 12 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 13 | And er they erm were there to provide additional growth on savings , and it was , it was the inflation , the R P I plus a b a bonus which equalizes out at three and a quarter percent per annum . |
| 14 | Okay , well you 've got two percent plus three and a quarter , that makes five and a quarter . |
| 15 | This is from various investment houses in , in , in the city , so five percent plus three and a quarter , eight and a quarter percent , and I would bet any money that interest rates have n't gone up that quickly . |
| 16 | And that 's where these certificates are the only guarantee that I can provide which will actually say well if we get fifteen percent inflation in nineteen ninety seven , they will pay fifteen p percent inflation , plus the three and a half percent three and a quarter percent bonus . |
| 17 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 18 | Why allowed three minutes for , but I might extend that to three and a quarter , I think , if the time goes well . |
| 19 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 20 | amongst the other winners were Oxford Brookes University who won the Temple Cup by three and a quarter lengths … |
| 21 | ‘ My biggest catch to date is a three and a quarter pound trout from the River Test . ’ |
| 22 | Erm round about three and a quarter thousand . |
| 23 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 24 | Alison 's baby book starts at three and a half . |
| 25 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 26 | Going down … three and a half … are you sure ? |
| 27 | My first experience of service with HM forces was when I was just over three and a half . |
| 28 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 29 | but I mean it was things like doing questionnaires maybe telephone question phoning people up you know that your three and a half , well not all of them but an example |
| 30 | Three and a half is about there . |