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Example sentences for "only three"

  • The water is only three or four inches deep, and rests on a layer of beautifully crystallized, white salt.

  • I was surprised to observe how great a change of climate a difference of only three degrees of latitude between this place and Buenos Ayres had caused.

  • You see, most of the colonial irregulars were enlisted for only three months, and that is up already, and no doubt a great many of them will not extend their time, and I don't suppose the military authorities will want them to do so.

  • Only three of these contained British wounded, the others were all occupied by Boers.

  • It was astonishing indeed to think that such a plan should have been conceived and carried out by a lad no older than some of their junior midshipmen, and assisted by only three others of the same age.

  • Flotow, Anleitung zur Fertigung der Ertragsanschlage, I, 80, four days of serf labor are equivalent to only three of a free day laborer.

  • Only three or four hundred Mohawk warriors, all told, were gathered behind the palisades of Tionnontogen to oppose him.

  • Only three days, and the blackgowns were gone.

  • The fleshy parts, and skin connected with the blubber, are next separated from it, and it is again cut into such pieces as will admit of its being passed into casks by the bung-hole, which is only three or four inches in diameter.

  • On one side the water is only three or four fathoms deep, on the other fifteen.

  • Of the remaining forty-five, including Cartier and all the surviving officers, only three or four were really free from disease.

  • For when the Dalesmen and miners heard the letter, they said it was manifest to them that the council at this time was but small and thin, since it consisted of only three men, and these of little weight.

  • Cartier allowed himself a rest of only three days at Stadacona, deeming it expedient to proceed at once up the river with an exploring party.

  • With a loss of only three of his immediate followers be Wet won his way out of the most dangerous position which even his adventurous career had ever known.

  • Though Johannesburg is only thirty-two miles from Pretoria, and though the State of which he was the head depended for its revenue upon the gold fields, he paid it only three visits in nine years.

  • This line of rugged hills is pierced by only three passes, each of which was held in strength by the enemy.

  • During the past eighteen years, only three specimens of that species have come out of India for the zoological gardens and parks of the world, and I think there are only five in captivity, all told.

  • Only three of the animals survived the long voyage; a buck and two does.

  • Only three or four suggestions are in order: All spring shooting should be prohibited.

  • While the number of notes in the songs varies in my 41 records from two to seven, more than half of them are of only three notes, and most of the others are of four or five.

  • Only three or four hints will here be added.

  • Only three of these need be mentioned here.

  • Though several other works here claim the title of ritual text-books, only three are in reality Brahmanas.

  • He is celebrated in only three or four hymns, while his name is mentioned slightly less often than that of Vishnu.

  • Mr. Hume's amendment received the support of only three or four members; and the original question was carried with only that number of dissentients.

  • Brigadier-general Godby held command of the garrison at Loodiana, which consisted of only three regiments of native infantry; but other troops were rapidly moving up to reinforce it.

  • Of the original seven there remained, besides Mr. Wingfield, only three in the Council.

  • There are over seventy newspapers in Illinois opposing Buchanan, only three or four of which support Mr. Fillmore, all the rest going for Fremont.

  • Only three hares (Lepus Variabilis) were killed from October to June, weighing from six to eight pounds and three quarters.

  • Only three to six shots from this gun were found to be necessary to demolish an enemy machine gun emplacement or other strongly held position.

  • This was in May, 1917, at which time the commissioned personnel of the division consisted of only three officers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bright lines; not good; only about; only because; only fair; only just; only know; only know she came and went; only laughed; only love; only party; only remained; only reply; only said; only some; only that; only thing; only this; only thought; only three; only through; only wish; only yesterday; only you; under convoy; whereof they