Example sentences of "three [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year three hundred and sixty pupils were injured from three thousand schools who regularly play the game . |
| 2 | In November 1987 , Silviu Brucan compared Ceauşescu 's rule unfavourably with the 1960s when ‘ the Party could successfully control the mass of the workers because … a turn for the better occurred in the standard of living in almost three million peasants who joined the urban industrial workforce . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , there are thought to be three million people who suffer from it . |
| 4 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 5 | I think they 're perhaps , if anything too generous because er , I will remind you as I said of the , at least three hundred companies who are doing pretty effective work in this area . |
| 6 | Our streets were invaded by two or three hundred coppers who normally would n't be able to find Deptford on a map . |