Example sentences of "[prep] three [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , Dunstable 's match at Staines was abandoned after they walked off after three of their players were dismissed . |
| 2 | These strange achondrites have been termed ‘ SNCs ’ — shergottites-nakhlites-chassignites being so named after three of the localities where they fell : Shergotty ( India ) , Nakhla ( Egypt ) and Chassigny ( France ) . |
| 3 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 4 | The UN withdrew its representation from the town after three of its employees were killed . |
| 5 | Coir must be watered differently and it must be fed after three to four weeks instead of the six to eight weeks recommended for peat . |
| 6 | A useful scheme is to try the patient on a conventional insulin regime after three to six months on a pump . |
| 7 | And the risk is high , as permits are often refused or issued only after three to five years of arduous negotiation . |
| 8 | Above 50% of infants and toddlers were able to discontinue the laxative after three to four months . |
| 9 | After three to four days incubation at 37°C the cells were harvested with 0.025% trypsin/0.5% EDTA ( Sigma ) and viable cells were counted with a haemocytometer ( viability was assessed by trypan blue exclusion ) . |
| 10 | After three to four days incubation the cells were pulsed with 0.1 µCi 7 5 [ Se ] selenomethionine ( CIS UK , High Wycombe , Bucks , UK ) in a volume of 50 µl for 18 hours . |
| 11 | It was just after three in the morning , and there were no lights on in any of the houses and nothing moving on the street . |
| 12 | Although it was after three in the morning , Sophie could hear the low , penetrating drub-drub-drub of a bass-line and a siren somewhere wailing in counterpoint . |
| 13 | We rolled into Casma just after three in the morning , the stink of fish oil hanging over the port and an old adobe fort peering at us out of mist . |
| 14 | We arrived in Sheffield a little after three in the afternoon and parked in the Meadow Hall Shopping Centre car park . |
| 15 | Ultimately , the man convinced me he was in fact a window-cleaner , starting about half past three to four o'clock . |
| 16 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 17 | They 're coming about half past three on Friday . |
| 18 | And the result was we were often working till half past three without any lunch at all . |
| 19 | Sure enough Jay at ten past three in the morning flits down the stairs of the crumbling house in her pomegranate kimono , mad woman in search of photo , as if a photo could help her understand . |
| 20 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |
| 21 | One person I always remember was a window-cleaner — about half past three in the morning , I walked along Lime Street , trying my doors , locks , and windows . |
| 22 | You started at seven thirty at night and , if you were lucky , finished at half past three in the morning . |
| 23 | It was half past three in the morning . |
| 24 | Dexter 's immediate reaction was to say yes , but he declined the offer : he was on duty after all , and even the detective constable 's iron constitution wilted under the influence of alcohol at half past three in the afternoon . |
| 25 | Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning . |
| 26 | On Friday , at approximately quarter past three in the afternoon , the head is found in the font of the Cathedral by Mrs Miranda Thrigg and Miss Julia Smith . |
| 27 | Rufus smiles lazily , ‘ Well , this boss-man may like to stay up till past three in the morning , but more likely he under the blanket . |
| 28 | At ten past three in the morning they coshed driver Jack Mills , and then uncoupled the engine and lead carriage in a manouvre they 'd practiced at Rail marshalling yards in London . |
| 29 | You 'd start then , get home about half past three in the afternoon , yeah |
| 30 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |