Example sentences of "a [noun sg] about three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 2 | I remember we went to a place about three miles from school , to a place called Sugarloaf Farm . |
| 3 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 4 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 5 | Then he took out a black leather hip holster and from that , a metallic dull revolver with a barrel about three inches long . |
| 6 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 7 | There was a school about three miles away , at Mulindry . |
| 8 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |