How To Use Three In A Sentence
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Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
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There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
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Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
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Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
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Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
Fighting the Whales
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There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire.
Book Contest Links ... more than a few
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They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
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Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that.
Hooting Yard
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Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
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Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets.
Steel Victory
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Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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During 1901-02, a shop was built on what became Part Three of Lot 245, which was leased to fruiterer Albert Blencoe.
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Howell has also admitted indecent assault charges against three of his patients in April and July 2008 at his clinic in Ballymoney.
Northern Ireland dentist admits double murder
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Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight.
FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
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So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called
Nobody Knows Nothing
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Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day.
The Sun
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I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others.
What to Do?
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In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
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The three were taken into custody in connection with alleged plans to attack the US embassy in Paris.
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By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
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The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Two officers, the subadar major, by name Mangol Singh, and three or four
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War
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Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
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No longer will I worry about favorites wrecking their seasons with three bad games.
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One woman's broken thigh bone had been badly set, leaving her left leg at least three inches shorter than her right.
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Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike.
The Satanic Verses
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I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
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For Brown, visiting Gill at South Fork is a six-hour schlep that he's managed only three times.
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Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
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The strike had been planned as a 24-hour walkout but has been extended three times.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
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But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
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But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
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CALLS for firefighters to move obese people are up by a third in just three years.
The Sun
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He had accused three opposition members of corrupt practices.
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And then I got there and they're like, no, you're writing sketches for other people, which I had never done and I was really kind of bummed because I had auditioned like two or three times.
Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
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She tells me there are three deals on the table for the biopic movie of her life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired.
April 1st, 2007
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He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
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The social networking giant has admitted excluding views of less than three seconds from its figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
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What of it if Winter has another snow-storm or two up his sleeve?I take my staff and fare forth to greet Spring with three dogs at my heels.
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About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits.
The Rebel Worlds
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Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
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Congress houses most of its collections in three buildings on Capitol Hill.
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The same thing happened when I was at the animal hospital, too; two or three people got preggers there, sometime before I left.
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What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance.
Archive 2008-03-01
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All three leads are simply stellar in their roles and the interactions ring absolutely true.
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Trained by Mark Tompkins and ridden by Philip Robinson, Babodana made his move about three furlongs out.
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There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word.
Hyphens.
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In Britain, one in every three marriages now ends in divorce.
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Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
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With this evidence at hand, one might question whether the three disjunct populations warrant classification as species rather than subspecies.
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Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Three teams of firefighters tackled the blaze for more than an hour.
The Sun
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The narrator is somewhat sardonic about his guests and is perhaps influenced by the three whiskies he's had and the cleanskin he's finishing up with.
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Do you protect your hotel with two or three henchmen?
The Sun
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Of the multitool's blades, the inch-and-a-half one is sharper than the three-inch one.
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However, outside of Africa, the major regions of Europe, east Asia, and the Americas exhibit three different patterns.
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The school's enrolment policy is based on three criteria, after which random selection is used.
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The payments on that car loan are in arrears by three months.
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Played three times for his native Northern Ireland.
The Sun
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Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.
The Lilac Fairy Book
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If you're keeping it traditional and not using Halloween as a three day extended party, you can get down on the actual holiday with the Latin funk of Pimps of Joytime and Nayas at Rock and Roll Hotel.
Nightlife agenda
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Erin Lyle, co-owner of Marty's Auto on Rathbone Avenue, told the Daily Herald "We have three houses right next to us and we've never had a noise or nuisance issue ... they're (city) not picking on tattoo parlors or grocery stores or anyone else.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The length should be that of the bandaging; the breadth, three or four fingers; thickness, three or fourfold; number so as to encircle the limb, neither more nor less; those applied for the purpose of rectifying a deformity, should be of such a length as to encircle it; the breadth and thickness being determined by the vacuity, which is not to be filled up at once.
On The Surgery
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Following three young people with dwarfism, with the focus on normal everyday challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
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One way to draw this is to start with an equilateral triangle, which has three sides of equal length.
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Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision".
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Eventually after three hours four beltmen had reached us and the rescue was completed.
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All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
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Three smoke grenade dischargers are mounted on each side of the turret.
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Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
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An encouraging aspect was that each of the three new caps in the squad contributed to the victory.
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Alternatively, you could use a three pin plug with a built-in thermostat, available from electrical retailers.
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She said two of the remaining three, unsighted threatened species had not been spotted since 1965 while the other had gone undetected since 1891.
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It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not surprisingly, there are about three Joes for every Jane but even so, that means there are over 8 million Janes.
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He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
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Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid.
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‘We've been on an economic downtrend for the past three years that needs to be stopped,’ said the head of the BDA employers association.
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He finished stretching when he was a beanpole, roughly three meters, or eight or nine feet.
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In September, return visitors to an Edinburgh guesthouse said it was time to ‘rethink the three-star rating’, complaining that the linens were ‘soiled’ and the carpet was littered with ‘crumbs and dustballs’.
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These need not be equal in size as the majority of people have three main meals daily.
Diets to Help Diabetes
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If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left?
Times, Sunday Times
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That includes splashing out on three deckchairs with matching beach huts for the patio.
The Sun
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However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament.
European Union: The referendum is an absurd sideshow | Observer editorial
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The detention of at least two of the three lawyers in recent days appears to be linked to recent developments regarding the blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
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This was their fourth defeat in a row and leaves them mired in the bottom three.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
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Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
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There are three large and fully furnished bedrooms - a twin, a double and a single room, so there is lots of space for a family in Ireland on holiday.
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Outside of what we term pit and dress circle is a partition, three or four feet high, dividing them from a promenade ten or fifteen feet wide.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
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The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.
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The band then romp through three road songs that most people would die for to have in their repertoire, each single one would get people leaping about on the dance floor at a college hop.
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Eid al Fitr in Oman is celebrated over a period of three days after the end of the month of Ramadan.
Global Voices in English » Oman: Eid on Twitter
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The ink is hardly dry on young Hay's new three-year contract.
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With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
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Selig said relocation of the team is subject to certain contingencies, including a formal vote (three-quarters needed) of ownership at the next owners meetings Nov. 17-18 in Chicago.
USATODAY.com - Selig confirms Expos' move
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Reilly will compare the population status and dynamics of the European common frog in the three different types of peat bogs found in Ireland.
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Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him.
The Coming Normalcy?
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Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree.
One River
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The battalion had three men killed last month.
The Sun
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Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The left side of the fairway is preferred, short of three bunkers that stretch across at 328 yards.
USATODAY.com - Open history at St. George's plus a hole-by-hole glance
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I didn't know what love was until the three of us clicked like that.
The Sun
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Three other ports were incised higher in the stomach wall on the patient's right-hand side, just beneath the liver.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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The three-time world champion only resumed playing last month after a six-month ban on disrepute charges.
The Sun
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This appears to be a reasonable choice for the threefold channel, which is formed by wide vestibules and has only a short neck region.
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The launch vehicle employed comprised three stages, the first stage being the highly successful Redstone rocket.
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This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year.
Times, Sunday Times
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You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
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The state of Michigan has endowed three institutes to do research for industry.
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He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
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The jetty was the way it had always been—flat and solid and surrounded on three sides by water.
Stones from the River
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All of the males present were rich or titled or fashionable, often all three, while the females were the cr@eme de la cr@eme of the demireps.
Dearly Beloved
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"I think that is a huge mistake on at least three counts."
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An interesting three-dimensional robot simulator with dynamics is available in Gazebo.
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We also ordered a cheese platter with three kinds of cheeses (two unripened and one aged).
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In fact, all three trends are already discernible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
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Lexical representation and development in a second language can be divided into three stages: formal stage, L1 lemma mediation stage, and L2 integration stage.
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Ruth Hawkin was sitting at the kitchen table, a forgotten cigarette in the ashtray next to her transformed into three inches of marled grey ash.
A Place of Execution
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The money, if given, would fund the building of a new classroom, catering for children aged from three to four.
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Three cheers for the winner!
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The original building consisted of a wide perimeter block bisected by a pair of transverse wings to form three narrow internal patios.
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It took me two days to do three "simple" jobs ... installing a shutoff valve behind a gas stove, replacing/fixing a tub faucet stem, and capping a sump pump.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia
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The three struggle to maintain a harmonious working relationship as brash youth clashes with age and experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just.
Tragedy of Tony Blair
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I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
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Amit won the race, slicing three seconds off his previous best time.
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Iran has refused to discuss the allegations of weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries," a term Iranian authorities often use to refer to the United States and its allies.
NYT > Home Page
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We then build a multispectral image consisting of five spectral bands (visible, near-IR, and three thermal IR channels) and use the program for further processing and interpretation.
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But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
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Three of the four panelists are current or former editorial page editors.
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This time all three acts were paired with a work from Debussy – Act I with Printemps, Act II with Trois Nocturnes, and Act III with La damoiselle élue.
Archive 2007-04-01
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To characterize the effect of the sample preparation procedure on the keratin structure, WAXS patterns were recorded for three groups of four horsehair fibers.
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Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
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Taken from their families and forced to live in "white" orphanages, three mixed-race aborigine children escape, traveling 1500 miles back home, using the title fence as their guide.
Cinematical
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It went missing three weeks ago but has only just been reported to police.
The Sun
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Maize is consumed as tortillas, which accompany rice and beans - typically eaten three times a day with eggs, cheese, meat, or chicken and with chayote stew or salad at lunch or supper.
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The three of them continued to circle around each other in the endless waltz of the aerial battle.
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When the phrase was first coined, the three estates of the body politic were the lords, the clergy and the commons.
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Previous gastric surgery was uncommon in all three groups and showed no significant difference.
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The orchestra itself (ten violins, three violas, etc.) is of a healthy (but not anachronistic) size - another plus to this recording.
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He won nine English Derbies, three Arc de Triomphes and 11 jockeys' championships.
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The tone of volume three is rather different.
Times, Sunday Times
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The opera is permeated with the Masonic sacred number - three.
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The youngest of the three had started snivelling.
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Bosses announced the company was consolidating three offices into a new building on the Turnpike Business Park.
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Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians (extant diapsids) because it developed independently in all three groups.
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Hey its not the mayfly its the gastrotrich (its an aquatic animal) that lives for only three days ... the longest is the tortoise (177 years) ... pls can anyone tell a SI unit named after a women scientist?????? plzzz? what is the name of the condition in which haemoglobin content gets decreased? en Español
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After a decent interval, the three of them resumed their conversation, much to my relief.
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We start a three-way makeout as the entire crowd gapes at us, in shock.
Get Laid or Die Trying
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All three are tough and run most of the heavies in the school.
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Even if you get to a hospital for antivenom, three out of four people will still die.
The Sun
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Tarja strode on, then suddenly stopped, frozen to the spot, as three figures began to materialise out of the dust.
TREASON KEEP
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He wrote a letter seeking to change his plea three days later, but the judge died before acting on it.
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I am three and a half and I get fed up when I go for walks with my Mummy because the pavements are always so messy because of dog poo.
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More recently, she has built a giant sculpture garden of threedimensional Tarot cards.
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This text discusses this system to expect to be in the implement circumstance of Sichuan by Manchu Dynasty. article is divided into three parts.
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It's like when I idiotically put two or three parentheticals inside each other rather than doing the normal thing and writing out separate sentences!
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I like to cane it for a minimum of two nights, more often three.
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After three days of "spinning," the fires were extinguished.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Even today, you still spend three days brain-dead before revival.
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When appearing in court, all three men refused to cooperate, claiming the government has no jurisdiction.
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For the Out Skerries comprise a group of three little islands which are conveniently arranged to form a perfect natural harbour.
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These last three paragraphs will get you by the usual, garden-variety botany mid-term.
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Linda said changing three sets of nappies, putting a trio of youngsters through school and dealing with triple helpings of teenage tantrums had not always been easy.
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‘Typically, in the past, debarments have lasted three to five years for lesser infractions,’ he says.
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German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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She started the year winning three qualifying rounds of the Australian Open.
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Saleh, a vital U.S. ally who has ruled Yemen for more than three decades, has pledged to step down when his term ends in 2013.
Outside Yemen's capital, anger and grievances run deep
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A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.
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After completing his school education, he studied audio-visual communications and filmmaking for three years.
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Quite different from its crisp Scottish cousin, the Staffordshire oatcake is more like a dense pancake made from batter containing three types of flour and, of course, oats.
Insider's guide to the best British food, and where to find it
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For €848, per person sharing, fly from Dublin to Leipzig and stay three nights in four-star accommodation in the Dorint Hotel in Halle.
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He needed at least three days to assess the genuineness of their intentions.
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Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies.
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We must pay great attention because when you arrive after three defeats you are very dangerous.
The Sun
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By statute, the borough council has 30 days from the date of the nominations to pick one of the three to become mayor.
Home News Tribune - News
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Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri.
The Times of India
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The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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Graphite is one of the four allotropic forms of carbon; the other three are amorphous carbon, diamond, and fullerene.
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The other three stood by the fireplace, Rudi leaning against the overmantel.
Royal Flash
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Over 6,000 policemen and women were on the streets of central London backed up by mounted police, three police helicopters and numerous plainclothes spotters on the roofs and in the crowd.
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He joked: ‘George launched a ship in Belfast and it was three miles out at sea before he let go of the bottle.’
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In one of her wittiest pieces, three gorgeously entangled clay figures hobnob.
Meet the best new artists in Britain
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You need to have three square meals a day.
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The current mob are three away from equalling that tally with 33 games remaining.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are three distinct types of spiric surfaces depending whether the axis of revolution cuts the circle, it a tangent to the circle, or is outside the circle.
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Three times a week he holds a "durbar," for the trial of offenders and transaction of general regimental business.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute
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The top floor, which formed part of the upper flat, has three bedrooms.
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Just three per cent had kicked the habit for good.
The Sun
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The landlord could be forced to pay compensation equal to three times the sum of the deposit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Astounded, I continued to adjust the hydroscope to a range incredible, turning the screw to focus at a mile and a half, at two miles, at two and a quarter, a half, three-quarters, three miles, three miles and a quarter -- click!
Police!!!