Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 2 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 3 | The fringe on this smooth style has been cut to three different lengths . |
| 4 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 5 | For 1992 the dividend has been increased from three kroner to five ( 50p ) to sweeten shareholders , including many in Scotland who subscribed for the rights issue last year at 175 kroner . |
| 6 | If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans . |
| 7 | The thinking of Conservative critics of the welfare state has been coloured by three broad influences . |
| 8 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 9 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 10 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 11 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 12 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 13 | A man has been jailed for three months for shooting dead a pair of swans . |
| 14 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 15 | FORMER Liverpool City Council trade unionist Tony Gavin , who stole welfare funds , has been jailed for three months . |
| 16 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 17 | This area has been subdivided into three broad geological provinces on the basis of Zechstein facies relationships . |
| 18 | The incomplete tablet V52 + 52b + 8285 has been reassembled from three fragments and gives a list of dedications , including offerings to the gods Poseidon and Paiawon , who was an early forerunner of Apollo . |
| 19 | But its price tag of around £100 million made it too expensive for a purely national project , and the cost has been split between three countries with Britain and the US joining the Netherlands . |
| 20 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 21 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 22 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 23 | and there 's more news today on the incident in which scrum-half Hannaford fractured his eye socket … the Saracens number eight Barry Crawley who threw the punch in the league game last week has been suspended for three weeks … |
| 24 | Our sense of injustice has been shared by three senior journals editors we have discussed the matter with . |
| 25 | As mentioned elsewhere , child benefit has been frozen for three consecutive years . |
| 26 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 27 | Time magazine has been restyled in three distinct editorial sections — The Week , Reviews and People — starting with the April 20 edition . |
| 28 | The work during the year has been divided into three fields of activity : |
| 29 | Subsequent work in Ecuador has been divided into three programmes under the control of individual residential BGS geologists working with counterparts from the Ecuador Institute of Mines ( INEMIN ) . |
| 30 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |