Example sentences of "[verb] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient village of Sutton in Holderness lies about three miles from the city of Kingston upon Hull . |
| 2 | I want about three or four inches off the bottom |
| 3 | This church stands about three miles from Ravenna at Classe ( Classis ) which was the port for the city in the days of Imperial Rome . |
| 4 | It probably covers about three hundred acres , and that serves world demand for , for one , for one car . |
| 5 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 6 | ( By way of illustration , in the mid-1980s the catalogue of IBM 's mainframe-computer manuals occupied about three hundred pages with about fifty titles per page . ) |
| 7 | He already has about three quarters of the membership on his computer database of members ' electronic expertise , so the amount of extra work will not be too great , but it will be a considerable relief to me . |
| 8 | ( Incidentally , Olwyn has about three cups of orange juice each evening : refusing this is a sure way to produce a tantrum ) . |
| 9 | Mr Baber has about three hundred plum trees on his farm . |
| 10 | yeah , they need walking about three times a day do n't they ? |
| 11 | However , once well established as in the three-year-old toddler , Stages and 4 slow wave sleep occupy about three sleeping hours , reducing with age in the same way as REM sleep . |
| 12 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
| 13 | ‘ Say about three ? ’ |
| 14 | Sorry what say about three pounds ? |
| 15 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 16 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 17 | This in turn seems to indicate about three surviving ‘ European ’ players . |
| 18 | One of the most frightening times in my life occurred about three years ago during the October break . |
| 19 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 20 | Do you know , do you know about three hundred and sixty degrees goes all the way round ? |
| 21 | IF YOU COME from Kentucky , you 're supposed to know about three things — chicken , thoroughbreds and Bourbon whiskey , ’ says Bill Samuels , a former rocket fuel scientist turned distiller at Maker 's Mark . |
| 22 | And those past trends show about three hundred a year . |
| 23 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 24 | The two other local mosaics , the Keynsham Villa mosaics , which were excavated in 1924 and last exhibited about three years ago , will also be on display . |
| 25 | If I switch off and wait about three minutes , she 'll fire up perfectly and carry on sometimes ten miles further , sometimes fifty until the problem starts again . |
| 26 | One bounce ; it hit the flag-stick and dropped about three feet from the hole . |
| 27 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |
| 28 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 29 | What I was going to say yeah I 've been involved in a lot of videos over recent years and erm central er and there 's a freelance budget which a caravan for central they usually charge about three or four thousand pounds depending on how long the video is |
| 30 | Ma , we all put about three pound in . |