Example sentences of "three [noun] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 2 | She had to try another three times over two days before she succeeded in talking her way in . |
| 3 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 4 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 5 | The study calculated that , compared to recycling , the production of new polyethylene bags requires three times as much energy , consumes eight times as much water , generates twice as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides and three times as much sulphur dioxide . |
| 6 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 7 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 8 | Those middle managers who are left are finding themselves with three times as much work to do as before , handicapped by depleted back-up resources . |
| 9 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 10 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 11 | This reaction is more endothermic ( H = +49 kcal/mol ) but gives three times as much hydrogen . |
| 12 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 13 | Fluorescent tubes give about three times as much light as a tungsten or incandescent ( normal everyday ) bulb . |
| 14 | The waste , to be dumped in July , will contain twice as much alpha radioactivity ( mostly plutonium ) and three times as much beta/gamma activity as was dumped last summer . |
| 15 | Peatbogs and the Greenhouse Effect , shows that the world 's peatlands are a major carbon store : covering 3 per cent of the land area they contain three times as much carbon as tropical rainforests , which cover nearly 6 per cent of the land area . |
| 16 | The study calculated that , compared to recycling , the production of new polyethylene bags requires three times as much energy , consumes eight times as much water , generates twice as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides and three times as much sulphur dioxide . |
| 17 | Wholemeal bread contains more nutrients than white bread and three times as much fibre , but this does n't mean white bread is bad for you ; it contains valuable protein , carbohydrate , calcium , iron and B vitamins , and some fibre . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 19 | About half ( 53.3% ) of the average English language news bulletin was concerned with Zambian affairs , but because there was three times as much news in English there was in fact twice as much Zambian news content in English in real terms . |
| 20 | In round terms the Greeks buy three times as many goods from the outside world as they manage to sell to it . |
| 21 | The survey showed that breeding had been so successful that there were now three times as many swans than at the last census , taken in 1983 . |
| 22 | There are thought to be about three times as many species of insect as of all other kinds of animal put together . |
| 23 | Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular . |
| 24 | There was a significant excess of subjects with acute on chronic gastritis in the miners ' group , and in addition , nearly three times as many miners had intestinal metaplasia in their gastric biopsy specimens . |
| 25 | Due to the way the data is stored , the dimensioning on the drawing usually creates between two and three times as many entities as are used in the original model . |
| 26 | Three times as many technicians , builders and electricians are trained in Germany as in Britain . |
| 27 | The fact that the USSR produces two to three times as many machine tools as the United States is not without significance . |
| 28 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 29 | Approximately three times as many boys as girls take O level physics and approximately four times as many take CSE physics . |
| 30 | At A level , nearly three times as many boys as girls enter , and as at 16+ , a greater proportion of the boys who enter gain the top grades . |