Example sentences of "for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myself after trying my hardest for three whole years . |
| 2 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 3 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 4 | Blanch endives by covering with a bucket , a large flower pot , or a dinner plate for three weeks |
| 5 | One injection gives protection against pregnancy for three months . |
| 6 | Do n't wash it for three days ! |
| 7 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 8 | But Jay did n't want to go home for three , what , four hours to mope over Lucy , alone ? |
| 9 | They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl . |
| 10 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 11 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 12 | There are no easy chairs , save for a single wooden rocking chair ; no cushions , save for three ornamental ones in a corner . |
| 13 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 14 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 15 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 16 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 17 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 18 | At last Monday 's weekly London tea auction , prices reached their highest for three years . |
| 19 | Expectations were upset for three basic reasons : First , the long Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka has finally taken its toll of the tea estates . |
| 20 | For three reasons such a move should be welcomed . |
| 21 | The students who occupied the square for three weeks in May and early June have been banished . |
| 22 | For some , it was the first step outside the embassy grounds for three months . |
| 23 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 24 | Lewis gave way to Fraser , and Azharuddin brought up a great hundred , and 1,000 for the match , with an easy clip for three . |
| 25 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 26 | You will be remanded in custody for three weeks with a view to a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 27 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 28 | ‘ If we remain in unity for three months then we will win the battle , ’ said Mr Bisztyga at a briefing before yesterday 's Central Committee plenum . |
| 29 | MIKE TOMCZAK , the Chicago Bears quarterback , threw for three touchdowns and Neal Anderson rushed for another as Chicago staved off a fourth-quarter rally by the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night to win 27-13 . |
| 30 | After Pontypool took similar action a decade ago , against California Golden Poppies in San Francisco , they were banned from touring for three years . |