Example sentences of "[noun sg] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , Peter he 's er he , he just started work in my department about three or four weeks ago , yes . |
| 2 | Beaverbrooks recommend you choose your wedding ring about three months before the big day so that you have no last minute worries . |
| 3 | You may lose hair because of illness or a shock , and it is common to have hair loss about three months after having a baby , but this is only temporary and the hair grows back . |
| 4 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 5 | In theory , 1.2 lb ( 0.54 kg ) of common salt is required per pound of hardness ( as CaC03 ) but in practice about three times this amount or more is employed . |
| 6 | Cenerente is a small village about three miles from Perugia which is silhouetted against the skyline on a hilltop 1000 feet above the Tiber plains . |
| 7 | I 've got an appointment in the hospital the second week of March and she said go down and have a blood test about three weeks before at least three weeks before . |
| 8 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 9 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |
| 10 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 11 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 12 | A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall . |
| 13 | You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times . |
| 14 | It took Allan MacIntyre , Systems Development Manager , and his team about three months to create a programme , make trial runs , train operators and install a reliable system that went live on 1st November . |
| 15 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 16 | I remember we went to a place about three miles from school , to a place called Sugarloaf Farm . |
| 17 | For this reason the man is asked to provide two semen samples for examination about three months after the operation , to see if the seminal fluid is free of sperm . |
| 18 | ‘ Proper people charge about three quid an hour . ’ |
| 19 | I saw her in Norwich Cathedral about three weeks ago . |
| 20 | Notably free of movies on white heterosexual themes , the programme includes Danny Thompson 's Public Enemy/Private Friends , a good-natured if thin Brixton-set comedy about three ranting rap-type youths desperately trying to find their lost ticket to a Public Enemy concert ; Cheryl Farthing 's Rosebud , an effective but slightly posey awakening-of-lesbian-desires item with an appealing cast and silly fantasy touches , and Mark Nash 's Between Two Worlds , about a gay florist in psychoanalysis . |
| 21 | That had changed tremendously , so easy it was to get into the country , that I went in and out of the border about three times , because having got into Yugoslavia , I realized I had some Italian currency , so I drove out again , spent my Italian currency , and drove back again . |
| 22 | The , the d doors were in the water right low , they were , they were low say you would n't have had say about three foot of water in the hold . |
| 23 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 24 | so they 're coming erm Friday just before dinner time they said between eleven and twelve and er they 're leaving Saturday afternoon about three |
| 25 | AMNESTY members will receive £5.00 off top price tickets for any Monday-to-Thursday performance of Someone Who 'll Watch Over Me , a play about three Beirut hostages by Frank McGuinness . |
| 26 | Like any nerve , the optic nerve is a trunk cable , a bundle of separate " insulated " wires , in this case about three million of them . |
| 27 | The lease for Southwell City Football Club , forty five pounds , our waste paper income , about five hundred pounds in the calendar year , er V A T refund about three thousand pounds , and grants I 've put down five thousand pound income for the year . |
| 28 | It was not only the prospect of Tuscany that had captivated Molly , it was the strange provision about three children , females preferred . |
| 29 | Milk about three pints of milk over this . |
| 30 | Bonanza ground about three inches of cigar into a shapeless heap of shredded tobacco . |