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Example sentences for "for three"

  • For three years we have been watching each other.

  • For three years he has kept all summer ducks away, and robbed my fish-lines, my nets, and my muskrat traps.

  • For three months' lodging and diet, having two rooms and a garret for a servant .

  • For three months' lodging in her house, including my diet, at 10s.

  • And this thought tormented me worse than all the rest, for three or four days' time.

  • For three nights he gave great satisfaction, but early in the fourth evening he staggered into the Museum so drunk that he could hardly stand, and in half an hour he must be on the stage!

  • Barnum proceeded in this strain with various scriptural quotations and familiar illustrations, for three-quarters of an hour.

  • She is a good child, well behaved; for three or four years she will have her illusions--not for longer.

  • Well, and you, old man, will be disposed of for three years.

  • A few days previously Hulot had insured his life for the sum of a hundred and fifty thousand francs, for three years, in two separate companies.

  • For three, sometimes six, months, Caroline executes the most brilliant concertos and solos upon this delicious theme: "I shall be rich!

  • For he has often drawn up leases of chateaux with parks and out-houses, for three thousand a year.

  • For three mornings I laid at the bottom of the basket all the letters which I knew came from the Ministers, and all the reports which were addressed to me for the First Consul.

  • For three nights I did not sleep; I thought of Diderik and Iselin.

  • For three days I had not seen a soul except the one fisherman I had met the day before.

  • For three weeks I saw nothing of Edwarda.

  • Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.

  • Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of brethren.

  • Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

  • And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days.

  • Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom.

  • At seven miles and a half changed to 38 degrees, for three miles to a high sand hill, from which I could see two salt lagoons, one to the south and the other to the north; examined them, but could find no springs.

  • Continued pushing, tearing, and winding into it for three miles.

  • I have had the creek, which joins this, run up for three miles to the sources to-day.

  • For three miles it takes a south-east course, then east-south-east through table land, with rocky and precipitous hills on each side.

  • For three weeks, Ulrich had not been to the edge of the precipice, from which he had looked down on to the village, and he wanted to go there before climbing the slopes which led to the Wildstrubel.

  • I have been alone, alone, all, all alone, for three months.

  • Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.

  • If then I except the rain of July, which lasted, at intervals, for three days, we had not had any for eleven months.

  • For three or four days prior to our arrival at Laidley's Ponds, the upward course of the river had been somewhat to the west of north.

  • In the summer season, the land and sea breezes blow very regularly, for three weeks or a month at a time.

  • For three hours we travelled in a south-easterly direction upon a hard plain and a sandy flat, on which several waters from the highlands find a passage to the sea westward.

  • For three nights, and three days that were as black as the nights, the water logged Sea Venture was scarcely kept afloat by bailing.

  • Martin, for three hours, and then took it again.

  • For three or four centuries after the invasions ceased, though, Europe presented a dreary spectacle of ignorance, lawlessness, and violence.

  • For three years it was known as the "English Classical School" (R.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for every; for fear; for him; for his mercy endureth for ever; for love; for not; for the following reasons; for the same purpose; for this; for when; forbid them; foreign intercourse; foreign ministers; foreign princes; forever free; forgive sins; forgiving sins; forked branch; formal logic; former experience; former occasion; formerly supposed; forty days; forty days and forty; forty millions; forward movement