Example sentences of "[noun sg] just three " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the fire brigade just three minutes to arrive at Douglas Reyburn when a twisting frame burst into flames in the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | Robert Stewart , 28 , of Skipton Green , Low Fell , Gateshead had denied the charge at Newcastle Crown Court , saying he had bought the car just three weeks before being stopped by police and the 351 squares of the drug hidden in fog lamp covers must have been left there by the previous owner . |
| 3 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 4 | Elizabeth , of Taunton , Somerset , was working as an advertising executive in Durban and had announced her engagement just three days before her death . |
| 5 | Maidstone chairman John Waugh , who bought the club just three weeks ago , said : ‘ I feel desperate for the people that have worked so hard for the club . |
| 6 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 7 | The plane was on a flight from Newcastle to Wycombe Air Park just three miles from the site of the crash . |
| 8 | The plane was on a flight from Newcastle to Wycombe Air Park just three miles from the site of the crash . |
| 9 | Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 . |
| 10 | Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 . |
| 11 | Now that last year 's results are out , it is no surprise that the board hustled chairman Peter Drew into retirement just three weeks ago . |
| 12 | Piggott fractured a collarbone , two ribs and suffered bruising around his right eye after his high-speed fall in a million dollar Breeders Cup race just three days ago . |
| 13 | During her riding career she has suffered nine broken collar bones and rode a winner at Market Rasen last season just three weeks after breaking her leg . |
| 14 | Jay , left , of Ashwood Drive , Stokesley , took up the game just three years ago after his family moved back to England from New Zealand . |
| 15 | Four year old Carly Surman died from the contagious meningococcal meningitis just three days after falling ill . |
| 16 | Four year old Carly Surman died from the contagious meningococcal meningitis just three days after falling ill . |
| 17 | Last night I was in bed just three hours . ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Currie was appointed junior health minister just three years after entering the Commons for Bedford South in 1983 . |
| 19 | Despite this damage , she was back at Deenethorpe for Dan 's third mission just three days later , on March 9 , 1944 . |
| 20 | A four week old baby girl is back home with her family after having open heart surgery just three days after her birth . |
| 21 | Defender-turned-striker Paul Warhurst is fit and could well play alongside either Nigel Jemson , David Johnson in the running just three weeks after a cartilage operation or Watson , if he recovers . |
| 22 | And do n't forget Geoff Thomas was a £4 million player just three months ago and now he 's in the reserves . |
| 23 | Why did this right-wing Tory minister announce that he was retiring from politics just three weeks before the election was announced , when his campaign posters had already been printed ? |
| 24 | His firm heard of an impending two-day Joint Monitoring Unit visit just three weeks after audit regulation was implemented last October , but it was later delayed until February . |
| 25 | Willie Robertson , 42 , the Liberal Democrat candidate , joined the party just three years ago but has an unbridled enthusiasm for the stump and feels that a sizeable proportion of Tories — disaffected by Mr Forsyth 's ardent Thatcherism — could switch to him . |