Example sentences of "three [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , the d doors were in the water right low , they were , they were low say you would n't have had say about three foot of water in the hold . |
| 2 | Tolman placed three groups of rats in a maze . |
| 3 | There are three groups of participants in the discount market : ( a ) the Bank of England and other issuers of bills , ( b ) the discount houses and ( c ) the banks . |
| 4 | Calcium increased faecal fat excretion in two of the three pairs of groups in which this was measured ( Table VIII ; p set at <0.02 because of multiple testing ) . |
| 5 | After three hours of talks in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Yitsak Shamir and Foreign Minister David Levy , he came away with little more that a promise of more talks about the plight of the Palestinians . |
| 6 | Researchers in Japan report three cases of leukaemia in women in their early 20s , two with bulimia and one with anorexia nervosa . |
| 7 | In the first year of the course , students take three units of study in Irish language and literature , one in Irish History , and two in Irish/Anglo-Irish Literature ( one of which is the Irish Oral Tradition ) . |
| 8 | Police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who 've invaded three homes of people in their eighties . |
| 9 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |
| 10 | There is an old saying about Madrid 's weather — ‘ Tres meses de infierno , neuve de invierno ’ , loosely translated three months of hell in the summer and nine months of winter . |
| 11 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 12 | They had three centuries of expertise in oral disinformation on which to draw in these situations . |
| 13 | To sum up , official government policy on the improvement of teaching quality in England and Wales appears to have identified three areas of influence in which intervention would be worthwhile : personal qualities , pedagogical skills and subject expertise . |
| 14 | Cunningham and Davis ( 1985 ) have identified three models of consultation in current practice : |
| 15 | Both Thresher and the Chancellor have since said he paid the Pounds 17.47 for three bottles of wine in the chain 's nearby Connaught Street branch the previous day . |
| 16 | On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation . |
| 17 | It is well to share this perception that learning is at the heart of development because , even after nearly three decades of activities in the NHS , development is still associated by many managers with ‘ going on courses ’ . |
| 18 | And they had three cargoes of coal in the Summertime , every week . |
| 19 | His starting point is the fact that we have three classes of receptors in our eyes , each tuned to respond to a different wavelength of light , one to ‘ red ’ , one to ‘ green ’ , and one to ‘ blue ’ . |
| 20 | Where Land 's theory differs from previous models of colour vision is that , instead of relating colour directly to wavelength , he argues that colour experience is related to the relative outputs of these three classes of receptor in different parts of the visual field . |
| 21 | His League career ended prematurely last season when he lost three pieces of bone in an operation on his right ankle . |
| 22 | His League career ended prematurely last season when he lost three pieces of bone in an operation on his right ankle . |
| 23 | By sticking to a glass of juice a day , removing skin from the chicken , and having three pieces of fruit in the evening instead of all the snacks would bring the calories down to 2,300 . |
| 24 | I put erm two or three pieces of aubretia in there . |
| 25 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 26 | Representatives of fishing nations have ended three weeks of talks in New York with agreement to hold more talks on ways of preventing the collapse of marine fish stocks because of overfishing . |
| 27 | The study found that there are higher incidence rates for all three severities of injury in the chemical industry compared to manufacturing as a whole . |
| 28 | There are three kinds of ant in a colony — a queens , workers and males . |
| 29 | We therefore have three kinds of operator in the UK financial system : |
| 30 | Placing the three kinds of power in a matrix with the three kinds of involvement produces nine types of compliance , three of which are found more frequently in practice than the other six because they constitute congruent relationships : alientative/coercive ( e.g. prisons ) ; remunerative/calculative ( e.g. firms ) ; normative/moral ( e.g. political parties ) . |