Example sentences of "they [be] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 2 | They are three times more likely than older men to be living alone and only half as likely to have a spouse . |
| 3 | They are three friends who have put their heads together to discuss the merits of a teacher , so they do n't need the splendid isolation of a separate line each . |
| 4 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 5 | They are three days . |
| 6 | They are three months behind with their payments . |
| 7 | Three cheers for that — but they are three cheers three years too late in terms of Government action , the tens of thousands of people who have died from smoking , and the tens of thousands more who have taken up smoking during that time . |
| 8 | No vines may be brought into production for Champagne until they have attained their ‘ third leaf ’ , that is to say , when they are three years old . |
| 9 | By the time they are three years old , young chimps are attempting it themselves , but at this age they are still very inefficient , often using tools of the wrong size . |
| 10 | The young eagles are ready to leave the nest after just over two months but are not ready to breed until they are three years old . |
| 11 | Sexual maturity is not normally attained until they are three quarters grown . |
| 12 | Yeah well then this has got all glass domes it 's got little patterns and they 're three d and coming out ! |
| 13 | They 're three times thicker than most other wipes , and big enough to cover a whole grown-up hand . |
| 14 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 15 | These cups have lasted they 're three years older than you are . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ They 're three miles away ; about eight hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | And they were three pounds each . |
| 18 | Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping . |
| 19 | Of the recent English titles issued , most ( 94% ) had been acquired by copyright deposit , but although the proportion of English titles which had been purchased was small ( 4% ) , in numerical terms they were three times as numerous as non-English purchases . |
| 20 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 21 | Being large town houses they were three storeys high with large basements . |
| 22 | They were three storeys high , hardly six foot apart , with broken windows repaired with paper and rags . |
| 23 | They were three towns away from the Mason . |
| 24 | They were three quarters of the way through the meal when Caspar , who did not miss anything any of the giants said and who had , in fact , long since perfected the art of listening to three different conversations at once , suddenly went rather white and made frantic gestures to Fenella . |
| 25 | I know these boots we bought off him they were three pound twelve and six they were . |
| 26 | Businessmen are feeling more confident than they were three months ago in 10 of the 14 countries covered by Dun & Bradstreet 's latest survey of sales expectations . |
| 27 | A storm blew up before they were three days out from Sicily , and several ships were either wrecked or blown off course . |
| 28 | You see Shakira and Michael Caine divorced and you say , ‘ Jesus Christ , he was talking about how happy they were three weeks ago ’ . ’ |
| 29 | And I say I I ca n't , I honestly can not remember what I was doing , I remember the environment one because I got a module written on that erm I remember that I had put in er I want to do first aid and safety in the home sort of thing er , they were three modules that I wanted er , to do . |