Example sentences of "[be] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 2 | You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days . |
| 3 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 4 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 5 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 6 | Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call . |
| 7 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 8 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 9 | The period of the fixed-term appointment will be for three years dating from until |
| 10 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 11 | If this help is given it will be for three months in the first instance and the position will be reviewed from time to time after that . |
| 12 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 13 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 14 | Minimum rental bookable in advance is for three days . |
| 15 | The contract is for three years , with the annual salary thought to be £130,000 . |
| 16 | The contract is for three years , with the annual salary thought to be £130,000 . |
| 17 | Musica boscareccia is for three voices , two sopranos and bass , soli or ‘ in ein corpus ’ . |
| 18 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 19 | It was for three years only , but it was a promising stepping-stone to a proper appointment . |
| 20 | Jean Ritchie ( Mrs Patterson ) specialised in Radiotherapy ( D. M. R. T. ) and was for three years Consultant Radiotherapist in Singapore . |
| 21 | That order was for three months ' duration . |
| 22 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |