Example sentences of "to [adv] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several factors which help to prolong this period to perhaps three or four times that in the male . |
| 2 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 3 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 4 | The Seychelles fody is also a very rare bird , being confined to only three of the smaller islands in the Seychelles group . |
| 5 | 223 , delivered by Humphreys J. , referred to only three authorities . |
| 6 | This modern-sounding and research-oriented publication ran to only three volumes in its English form : Hofmann 's aims and moderate success in London reflected those of the Report . |
| 7 | Another rapist was sentenced to only three months in prison because his five-year-old victim was , said the judge , ‘ an unusually sexually promiscuous young lady . ’ |
| 8 | We have seen that there are a large number of points of difference between JC and LE ; yet Joan , in her conversation with Carol , adapts to only three or four of them . |
| 9 | But if you 're int limited to only three subjects surely she |
| 10 | The London Midland Region , the only operator of wholly DC units , cut its varieties to just three . |
| 11 | That surely limited the suspects to just three ; Jos , Emily and Alice . |
| 12 | The 80 emergency exchanges would be slashed to just three with the loss of 8,000 trained operators . |
| 13 | As opposed to just three of us looking at it . |
| 14 | In just a few short years , the average hospital stay after a baby has dropped from eight to ten days in 1982 , to just three to four in 1989 . |
| 15 | The Australians just needed three ends to take the third set with a 7-0 whitewash and then confined the New Zealanders to just three singles , one in the fourth set and two in the last , to complete a 1-7 , 7-6 , 7-0 , 7-1 , 7-2 win . |
| 16 | This would embrace all the institutional players and allow for the rolling settlement system to be cut to just three days — in line with the systems in other international centres . |
| 17 | This will mean cutting the current 70 telephone exchanges involved in the service down to just three . |
| 18 | Thanks to just three votes , Mr Major could sit back and relax for a few moments . |
| 19 | to just three . |
| 20 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 21 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
| 22 | This corresponds to about three locks per hour , though not continuously , as the lift would only operate when there was traffic to move . |
| 23 | It is an actual fact that eventually membership whittled down to about three or four . ’ |
| 24 | it was very much a composite host , consisting of the Earl 's own feudal manpower , the levies required by the crown , for the support of the Warden , from Border lairds , and bands of assorted mosstroopers belonging to various clans who found it profitable and expedient to ally themselves with the most powerful figure in South-East Scotland , the assembly at Holywell Haugh amounting to about three thousand . |
| 25 | Erm if you add all that up it comes to about three million words . |
| 26 | That the population of the parish and village of Bowmore amounts to about three thousand souls ; and that of all the population not more than three hundred regularly attend church . |
| 27 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 28 | Now you 're limited to about three hundred and three hundred three hundred and forty K of conventional memory , and you ca n't increase that , you ca n't , yo you can buy more memory , and instal it into the P C , but er , you ca n't increase your conventional memory available to your spreadsheet , much more than , let's say about three hundred and forty K approximately . |
| 29 | The length of the time that the occupational therapists take to complete their investigations is also down to about three months . |
| 30 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |