Example sentences of "are only three " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then continues : ‘ There are only three great English painters this century : Stanley Spencer , Wyndham Lewis and Francis Bacon . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately there are only three positions , so adjustability is limited , especially if you are tall or short . |
| 3 | From this and from the particle 's measured lifetime , physicists at CERN have deduced that there are only three families of fundamental particles . |
| 4 | ‘ There are only three McCloys in this district , ’ Burden said on the following morning . |
| 5 | There are only three of them — and that includes George Howarth and his wife , Julie . |
| 6 | It has fairly large pistons because there are only three of them , producing no less than 47 bhp . |
| 7 | Relations of surplus extraction , population growth and the relevant characteristics of the environment are only three sets of variables amongst many others . |
| 8 | After 10 days of development within the egg , the forelimb of the chick — the wing — has a pattern very similar to that of the human arm , except that there are only three fingers . |
| 9 | In the optic nerve of the rate — the nerve that joins the eye to the brain — there are only three kinds of glial cells . |
| 10 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 11 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 12 | Notice that there are only three colour pots , BLUE , RED and YELLOW . |
| 13 | I might add that this is not an attempt to get publicity as there are only three NME readers in this town — and we all play in the same band ! |
| 14 | Traditionalists insist that there are only three appropriate accompaniments to Wensleydale : — apple pie , gingerbread , or fruit cake . |
| 15 | There are only three to the south porch . |
| 16 | There are only three sacral vertebrae that support the pelvis , the lowest number that occurs among dinosaurs , and the hand retains a fifth digit , albeit reduced to a short metacarpal . |
| 17 | There are only three : the Southern Cross , the Southern Triangle and Lupus . |
| 18 | Asked if there are more flowers or more roses , four-year-olds will typically say that there are more roses , for there are only three daffodils . |
| 19 | ‘ Now there are only three of you . |
| 20 | There are only three cases which I need to look at in detail , Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 and Dobson v. General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Plc . |
| 21 | There are only three Roman Catholic choir schools in England and one in Wales . |
| 22 | " There are only three such girls in the world . |
| 23 | Incidentally electric blankets are only three amp . |
| 24 | The advantage is that , on the Macintosh , there are only three or four real standards ; one for text , one for bitmaps , one for object graphics and one for scanned material . |
| 25 | In the entire three hundred feet of stairway there are only three windows . |
| 26 | However , there are only three basic types : |
| 27 | For the detectorist , there are only three small coves of shingle and Eastern beach , which lies at the end of the airport runway . |
| 28 | There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more . |
| 29 | Despite the comprehensiveness and relative complexity of Porter 's analysis , he concludes that , once one has arrived at an assessment of one 's competitive strengths by considering how strong an SBU is in terms of the factors in figure 4.5 which are most important for the relevant industry , there are only three generic strategies open to any SBU to become more competitive . |
| 30 | There are only three — ‘ sil lum tao ’ , ‘ chum kui ’ and ‘ bil jee ’ . |