Example sentences of "[adv] three [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three out of 26 aspirin bottles carried warnings against use by pregnant women . |
| 2 | In fact , young people come out worse overall on only three out of the thirteen attributes relative to older workers . |
| 3 | On only three out of approximately 180 occasions , therefore , can it be said that the inspectors had been less than absolutely fair in the opinion of those who were criticised . |
| 4 | The neighbourhood culture workshops specially promoted by her predecessor apparently feel they have insufficient support from her , although in fact only three out of seventy workshops have been scrapped . |
| 5 | Only three out of sixteen lots sold , for a total of Pta36,500,000 ( £202,800 ; $352,800 ) . |
| 6 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |
| 7 | You know that yours are just three out of 12,000 works to be assessed , and that only 1,000 get through . |
| 8 | In Strathclyde alone , nearly three out of every five cases were not pursued to court , a statistic which provides ‘ considerable support for the view that a policy of mass arrests was pursued by the police in that area ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 9 | Nearly three out of four adults own a video recorder but only one third of women use them without any problems , compared with two thirds of men and half of children . |
| 10 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 11 | The report describes how three out of four birds die of disease , crushing , overcrowding and starvation in transit . |
| 12 | Boxes enclose identical amino acids in at least three out of the four sequences . |
| 13 | Residues identical in at least three out of the four sequences are boxed . |
| 14 | Er , I mean at least three out of every four issues . |
| 15 | In a public survey , almost three out of four people thought that travel agents should give independent advice regardless of their financial links with any one operator , but only just over half , 54pc , thought this happened in practice . |
| 16 | In a public survey , almost three out of four people thought that travel agents should give independent advice regardless of their financial links with any one operator , but only just over half , 54pc , thought this happened in practice . |