Example sentences of "of about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to hire a new vehicle on a fully maintained basis for a period of about three years . |
| 2 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 3 | This gun 's got a range of about three hundred metres and your mother 's a very good shot . |
| 4 | From the age of about three , at bedtime story-time , Shanti would often ask , ‘ Tell me about when you fetched me from London . ’ |
| 5 | In the centre of the Court the door to a large flat was answered by a pretty fairhaired little girl of about three years old . |
| 6 | In the river valleys and levels densities of just over four pairs per square kilometre have been noted in the Arun valley , and of about three pairs per square kilometre in Pevensey Levels . |
| 7 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 8 | I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag . |
| 9 | Since the human population increased by a similar rate , according to the statistics there was a constant proportion of about three persons for each head of cattle . |
| 10 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 11 | During its growth phase ( called anagen ) hair grows for between three and six years , Then there is a short resting period ( telogen ) of about three months , when the hair is shed . |
| 12 | It was n't a baby either , it was a child of about three , and what 's more it was a boy with a shock of fair hair . |
| 13 | The Arrowana to be introduced will be young specimen of about three or four inches ( 7–10 cm ) , which are readily available now . |
| 14 | Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door … and the precious hope in Kerry 's heart died . |
| 15 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 16 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |
| 17 | His planned route would take him from Oban via Falmouth to the Canary Islands before striking out for either Bermuda or Newport , Rhode Island — a total voyage of about three months . |
| 18 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 19 | One should also remember that for a period of about three or four months in the summer the terraces are closed completely . |
| 20 | On his side of the Thames , by the parkland and shrubberies of Wandsworth Common , a crowd of about three hundred people had gathered . |
| 21 | Er so there will be er a loss to us there of about three hundred pounds because erm we were asking for something to be made and therefore I think I would say quite rightly but in view of this experience perhaps never again , er made some advance contribution , you know to the cost or made some , gave some money in advance blah blah blah . |
| 22 | The most remarkable of the ocean or sensible heat occurred in the mid nineteen seventies , what 's referred to as the Widdell polenier An area of about three hundred thousand square kilometres was ice free for each winter for three consecutive years . |
| 23 | Barrow-in-Furness , too , sprang from a single house , grew into a fishing village of about three hundred people by the 1840s , and by 1878 was a town of forty thousand . |
| 24 | It is small , attaining a total length of about three inches . |
| 25 | Another interesting point is that measurements of the velocity dispersion of the galaxies in HCG62 suggest that they have drifted inwards by a factor of about three compared with the dark matter . |
| 26 | Clare , wearing an old red ski suit , stood in a crowd of about three hundred people . |
| 27 | There were about thirty Black or non-English-speaking women , out of a population of about three hundred . |
| 28 | The adult population dies when an ice cover forms and oxygen levels within the water fall , after a lifespan of about three months in ponds and up to six months in lakes . |
| 29 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 30 | The yard outside must be flooded to a depth of about three feet . |