Example sentences of "[prep] just three " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 2 | His first marriage to actress Mimi Rogers , 10 years his senior , broke down after just three years . |
| 3 | Last night Davidson , host of the BBC snooker game show Big Break , admitted his marriage had broken up after just three years . |
| 4 | Peterborough put worries over today 's FA enquiry into last week 's FA Cup coin-throwing incident against Kingstonian behind them , storming ahead after just three minutes . |
| 5 | Peterborough put worries over today 's FA inquiry into last week 's FA Cup coin-throwing incident behind them , storming ahead after just three minutes . |
| 6 | Swindon were in no danger of missing the boat to the third round … just to make sure player manager Glenn Hoddle hammered them into the lead after just three minutes … |
| 7 | But it was quickly abandoned when the IRA resumed its terror campaign after just three days . |
| 8 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
| 9 | CCA was in these figures for just three months and fine art contributed £849,000 of profits , up from £156,000 . |
| 10 | At Trent Bridge , the first part of the story was the same except for one detail — Richards went for just three . |
| 11 | MIPCOM takes place over five days — — though not being exhibitors with all the setting-up and taking-down of displays ( video-screens , logos , stylish furniture , programme brochures , all de rigueur ) — we opted for just three days . |
| 12 | How hard would it be for you to live entirely without each of the following basic ingredients in their various forms for just three weeks ? ( choose one answer . ) |
| 13 | Theresa had been on an adventure working holiday at the agricultural settlement , the Neot Hakikar in the Negev desert , for just three months . |
| 14 | PHIL SIMMONS took four wickets for just three runs against Pakistan yesterday to record the most economical spell in one-day international cricket history . |
| 15 | Buy a special pack of four half-pound boxes of Roses Chocolates and pay for just three . |
| 16 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
| 17 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 18 | There is time for just three examples — one from phonology , one from grammar , and one from semantics . |
| 19 | The injury means Lawrence will miss the early part of the new season with Gloucestershire … and may play for just three months . |
| 20 | erm One pretends that one 's wife is going into the shop just for ten , you know for just three minutes , or that there is a baker 's van delivering stuff at nine , nine o'clock in the morning . |
| 21 | In statutory terms this is often a period of just three days . |
| 22 | Here , in their own brief words , are the stories of just three of them . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , attempting to detect a cyclical trend on the basis of just three cycles is a risky enterprise . |
| 24 | A perilously thin majority of just three . |
| 25 | A young infantry major danced with his wife of just three weeks . |
| 26 | A maze consisting of just three such junctions would have — well , hundred and hundreds of routes . |
| 27 | Within the space of just three years , he submitted approximately 15 proposals , more than half of which found champions or sponsors , with projected value in the millions of dollars . |
| 28 | Some four months before the publication of the reported work , we produced a report which drew on a questionnaire survey of all police surgeons and sample surveys of investigating and custody officers working in the Metropolitan Police District ; the reported work focused on the custody records of just three stations in London . |
| 29 | With high topsides , an almost hard chine form and a sail wardrobe which consisted of just three sails from Lymington-based Pete Sanders — the main , a 0.75oz spinnaker and a 100 per cent overlapping jib — she met many of her owner 's requirements . |
| 30 | These can be described by a series of complicated integrals , but the integrals have been expressed in terms of just three parameters , A , B and C , called Racah Parameters . |