Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [adv] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the announcement on 8 March 1962 of the composition of the National Directorate of the ORI , which revealed that the Communist old guard would have the upper hand , was countered three weeks later by the denunciation of Anibal Escalante for ’ sectarianism' , a measure which forced the Soviet Union to take a stand . |
| 2 | The waiting list figures , released three weeks early by the Department of Health , show that the number of people waiting over two years for treatment in the Northern Region has dropped from 1,474 at the end of March , 1991 . |
| 3 | Indeed , this whole topic was resurrected some three years ago by the demonstration of Y chromosome specific product obtained by the technique from pregnant women with male fetuses . |
| 4 | The undercover operation , code-named Operation Courier , was set up three years ago by the DEA in Cyprus to infiltrate Lebanese heroin groups in the Middle East and their connections in Detroit . |
| 5 | While there were , therefore , good grounds for pessimism about future progress , the question of whether integration could proceed beyond a limited sectoral level was answered three years later by the Treaty of Rome . |