Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [num] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
| 2 | Starting from the stable courtyard at 14.00 and 15.30 they last about 45–60 minutes and there is no extra charge . |
| 3 | Here was that Jaws Three or Four they showed , showed on Saturday night ? |
| 4 | International competitiveness rose : between 1961 and 1963 Italian export prices rose by 1.2 per cent relative to the EEC export price index ; between 1964 and 1968 they fell by 5.4 per cent . |
| 5 | Because they had arrived independently and in twos and threes they had outstripped their organizers and were at a loss what to do . |
| 6 | Between about 1922 and 1925 they sold Army Surplus tools and oddments of which there were a great deal at the end of World War I , obtainable at give away prices . |
| 7 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 8 | The financial importance of this seizure for Edward III has yet to be satisfactorily explored and calculated , though it was clearly considerable : there were just over a hundred cells or estates involved and in the financial years 1342–3 and 1345–6 they paid farms to the king totalling £5304. 7/ 7d. and £4181. 8/. 2d. respectively . |
| 9 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |
| 11 | From the ages of nine or ten they distributed magazines and helped to hand out the Sunday School " tickets " , picture cards of birds or flowers with a short text from the Bible . |
| 12 | ‘ One and Two they 've got . |
| 13 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 14 | On the first of January nineteen hundred and one they formed a federation and most adult aborigines were |
| 15 | And there was no way , you know at a hundred and eighty they 'd struggled . |
| 16 | The various types of Housing Associations continued to grow after the 1914–18 war , and under the Acts of 1930 , 1936 and 1949 they became eligible for subsidies under certain conditions . |
| 17 | In exchange , Aunt Tossie remembered winners they had ridden , fours and sixes they had hit , centuries they had made , and their handicaps in polo . |
| 18 | Although the Lancastrians had relied principally upon the archaic fifteenths and tenths they had occasionally tried some experiments . |