Example sentences of "about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 2 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 3 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 4 | About three weeks after I moved in , she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening . |
| 5 | Allow about three weeks to blanch fully . |
| 6 | It is usual to hire a new vehicle on a fully maintained basis for a period of about three years . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , about three months , ’ said Jay lightly . |
| 8 | He does remember , puckishly , an incident when he was about three years of age . |
| 9 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 10 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 11 | About three hundred burst through a police cordon between the park behind the embassy and the road outside . |
| 12 | General Noriega went on television to say he had been aware of the rebels ' plans for about three weeks . |
| 13 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
| 14 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |
| 15 | Anthony Palmer QC , for the prosecution , has alleged that Mr Browning told police he had ‘ misplaced ’ his knife about three weeks before the killing . |
| 16 | The most dramatic defection from its board was that of Martin Sorrell , its former finance director , who left about three years ago to join WPP , a small industrial company , which he transformed into the world 's second largest advertising group , principally with takeovers of J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather , two of the leading US agencies . |
| 17 | ‘ In about three minutes we shall have one or two bombs from the German mortars falling near here , ’ he remarked , as he started again on his steak and kidney . |
| 18 | About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm . |
| 19 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 20 | This is usually for the length of the publishing agreement ( normally about three to four years ) plus a period which could range from five to twenty-five years , depending on the writer 's bargaining position . |
| 21 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 22 | It took me about three hours to get six stops . |
| 23 | At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe . |
| 24 | Police injuries , 243 in August 1977 ( according to Merlyn Rees , Home Secretary ) , continually made headlines but in fact about three times as many pickets were injured . |
| 25 | Corporal Bromby 's team are on task north of the Antelope Road changing a B81 — they should be finished in about three hours . ’ |
| 26 | A black mulberry ( Morus nigra ) , it will be about three feet high when delivered , ready to be planted out ( with instructions enclosed ) . |
| 27 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 28 | A student at Sheffield university then , he recalls : ‘ When you blew into your handkerchief , you got about three tons of coaldust . |
| 29 | THE 120,000-strong GDR army , alone among the Warsaw Pact armies , is under the direct operational control of the Soviet forces stationed alongside them , who outnumber them by about three to one . |
| 30 | The general said that the mutinous soldiers would abandon their positions , give up their ammunition and walk on foot to their camp at Fort Bonafacio about three miles away . |