Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] three [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 2 | They were mercenaries , wearing the black and white linen bands of the Free Company , but there were two or three others in full Hearthware armour who seemed to be in charge . |
| 3 | So you start by saying ( and these are purely arbitrary divisions , you can work out your own ) : ‘ We 're here for three nights and four days , let's have one evening completely free , two or three meals in different , interesting locations ( include transport time ) and perhaps half a day free for shopping . |
| 4 | ‘ Five or six of the younger lads will be fixed up in Australia , New Zealand or South Africa to further their education in the fame , and we usually reckon to have two or three players on international tours . |
| 5 | Er what we are gon na do and obviously we 're in the process of , you 're the first at the moment , is to have two or three quotations from different people . |
| 6 | To make measuring easier , use two or three battens with square ends of different lengths , for example , one 2m long for measuring ceilings , and one 3m or 4m long for walls . |
| 7 | Beyond her , there were more ranks of bared heads , this time facing the Collector ; their eyes , too , scanned him greedily , looking for fissures and further away still , two or three faces of sick or wounded men watched from the open windows of the hospital . |
| 8 | In another cupboard were two or three bottles of Italian wine . |
| 9 | Generally , if you have at least two or three slices of good wholemeal bread each day , and some other wholegrain cereal product , this will form a good base around which to design your meals , and add other iron-rich foods . |
| 10 | I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . |
| 11 | When you 've made the notes , structure them into two or three pages of narrative prose . |
| 12 | Experience had shown early on in the war that a trench line defended by two or three belts of uncut wire ( this rose to as many as 18 in some sensitive sectors ) held up an infantry attack . |
| 13 | To test the boy 's power of observation and memory , two or three herds from different homesteads are mixed , and the boy is asked to separate them by picking out all that belong to his herd . |
| 14 | If you are having regression therapy to help you deal with a problem whose roots are buried in a previous existence , you may well need two or three sessions of actual regression before you hit upon the significant lifetime . |
| 15 | If you 've mastered the basics of riding and are a competent rider lusting after some unbridled adventure , saddle up for trail riding — a trek lasting two or three days with overnight stops . |
| 16 | It also became clear it could take two or three days of fierce ministerial talks to sort out the division of the £244.5 billion public spending cake . |
| 17 | So being a fan is mostly about replenishment , and last year provided me with plenty of that ; outplayed by Benfica , two or three months of dismal ineptitude in the league around Christmas , and then the Wrexham humiliation … |
| 18 | For a relatively straightforward project , the sponsors may have identified two or three banks as potential sources . |
| 19 | On the other hand , prepared foods offer a balanced diet which would not be available from just two or three kinds of live food . |
| 20 | The hairstyle would be a number two or three crop with feathered fringes all round . |
| 21 | Chop and mix together two or three pieces of fresh fruit . |
| 22 | The houses at Pompeii vary greatly in size and elaboration , from two or three rooms to large buildings with many rooms arranged round courtyards . |
| 23 | Others have had two or three years of primary schooling but , without access to written materials , many of these have forgotten what they once learnt . |
| 24 | After two or three years of utter boredom in the bosom of their family , marriage seemed the only answer to those forced back home . |
| 25 | They planted their two or three years of secret deerhood |
| 26 | ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end . |
| 27 | when they are travelling , in the front a child , now one year , must use an approved child restrain design for age and weight , a child over one may wear any approved child restraint on adult seat belt , in the rear a child must be restrained and the appropriate restrain is fitted , the the term appropriate restrain includes the following ; infants under one year old , a carry or cot which is held by straps , children one , two or three years in appropriate child seat or harness or booster cushion with an adult belt , not a household cushion . |
| 28 | T. B. Panabokke , when Police Magistrate at Matale , was also suspicious : ‘ The usual evidence was that so-and-so lost his animal and that two or three people at different places , when they went to turn water to their fields , met the accused driving the animals away . |
| 29 | Position it on the backing and cover it with two or three sheets of white blotting paper and a weight ( books are quite useful ) . |
| 30 | Body Oils : For a 2 or 3 per cent concentration , add two or three drops of essential oil to each teaspoonful of base oil . |