Example sentences of "[adv] three [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 2 | Furthermore three of the company 's directors , who had never met , had been paid for use of their names . |
| 3 | So three of us went around . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hockley , an assistant in a bakery , was only three over par for yesterday 's round as she stood to her second , a nine iron , at the 15th . |
| 6 | The use of infinitive clauses is particularly remarkable : James has thirteen of these , whereas Conrad and Lawrence have only three between them . |
| 7 | Taking no chances , power packed Denbighshire amassed 243–6 after losing opening batsman Richard Buckley-Jones of Marchwiel for a duck with only three on the board . |
| 8 | As I was only three at the time , I lacked confidence in my ability to make it back to dry land under my own steam . ’ |
| 9 | Being only three at the time , I ca n't remember much about it . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding a marked inferiority at centre and back row , the champions , with only nine of their title-winning side and four newcomers to county rugby , made an unstinting contribution to a fluid game in which they were outscored in tries only three to four . |
| 11 | There are only three to the south porch . |
| 12 | In elections for the Gaza Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4 nationalists who backed the Madrid conference won 13 of the 16 seats , unexpectedly leaving only three to Islamic groups who had rejected the conference . |
| 13 | Only three of their candidates were elected . |
| 14 | Rocky Saganiuk , the Ayr coach , took his team to the Heineken Championship at Wembley in April , but they won only three of their six Norwich Union Cup games . |
| 15 | Only three of the five works in the programme could be described as Canadian , and the whole evening left an impression it would be kind to call elusive . |
| 16 | Only three of the eleven members were peasants . |
| 17 | There are only three of them — and that includes George Howarth and his wife , Julie . |
| 18 | Boucher , who has lost only three of his 23 fights and carries a powerful right-hand punch , will represent a fair test . |
| 19 | But Labour 's shadow education secretary Mr Jack Straw said since only three of the 20 were in operation on the target date ‘ why does n't he recognise the CTC programme as an immoral and wasteful failure ? ’ |
| 20 | It has agreed that , because of international players ' commitments , only three of the eight ties will be played on that date , with the others in the following four weeks . |
| 21 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 22 | It has fairly large pistons because there are only three of them , producing no less than 47 bhp . |
| 23 | An indication of the Board 's hesitancy and internal division can be gauged from the decision , in February 1930 , being agreed only after a vote was taken and that only three of the eight listed recommendations in Hickson 's confidential memorandum were approved . |
| 24 | With weather conditions on the appointed day predicted to be very severe — including gales likely to cause structural damage to buildings — only three of the six teams managed to participate . |
| 25 | On the advanced course there were only three of us . |
| 26 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
| 27 | Only three of the houses are permanent homes of locals , the rest holiday houses . |
| 28 | The scheme of increasing complexity from sub-atomic particle to individual living being yields seven levels of organization , only three of which are in the non-living world . |
| 29 | Only three of the 20 homes in his street had escaped the burglars and the wreckers . |
| 30 | Only three of the 16-strong team were let in the room while the Queen recorded . |