Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | This church stands about three miles from Ravenna at Classe ( Classis ) which was the port for the city in the days of Imperial Rome . |
| 3 | It probably covers about three hundred acres , and that serves world demand for , for one , for one car . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Incidentally , Olwyn has about three cups of orange juice each evening : refusing this is a sure way to produce a tantrum ) . |
| 6 | Mr Baber has about three hundred plum trees on his farm . |
| 7 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |
| 8 | It costs about three hundred pounds to be a pug person , that 's the price of a pedigree puppy . |
| 9 | But it costs about three hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Er we , this budget actually includes about three quarters of a million increase in d in expenditure on day care . |
| 11 | Terri reckons about three fifty . |
| 12 | It takes about three days to get a call out and I remember DeFries did n't answer any of David 's calls because I think he knew what was going on . |
| 13 | It usually takes about three people to hold him . |
| 14 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |
| 15 | Roll rate is satisfyingly rapid , and the 207 takes about three seconds to complete the reversal of a steep bank , one way to the other . |
| 16 | Training the system to recognise the user 's voice takes about three hours and involves dictating 200 so-called ‘ control ’ words , three times each , into the system . |
| 17 | They say it takes about three weeks for a cure to work , and most Baden packages are based on this , although some are streamlined to 14 days . |
| 18 | As an example , one of our machines with a SCSI hard drive takes about three minutes to boot from cold , as the SCSI card gets its affairs in order . |
| 19 | it usually takes about three working days and er |
| 20 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 21 | I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be . |
| 22 | It takes about three hours to make a basic card , but can take weeks to produce the more exotic patterns . |
| 23 | Takes about three quarters of an hour . |
| 24 | she comes away at , she 's fiddled on she does n't , she does n't , she takes about three thousand and comes back . |
| 25 | They actually just feed this information , it takes about three minutes on average to input the data off this into the computer , and it goes straight into the mainframe computer . |
| 26 | Just to keep fit , or as he said ‘ to warm up for a day at Sekers ’ he swims about three miles each week . |
| 27 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 28 | Today , Homegrown Videos receives about three to five cassettes daily . |
| 29 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 30 | BREASTFEEDING — Suckling ; a still nearly universal way of feeding infants and young children in most developing countries , first exclusively by lactation ( full breastfeeding that often lasts about three to six months ) , then introducing supplementary food ( partial breastfeeding that may last for several years until weaning ) . |