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Example sentences for "three and"

  • In passing the inner trend of the cape, the water will shoal to three and three-quarter fathoms, but do not approach too near the point.

  • I am content with three to three and a half bales of cotton to the hand, with my provisions and pork; but some few make four bales, and last year two of my neighbors made five bales to the hand.

  • As an evidence of the specialization of the Piedmont in cotton, it was reported in 1836 that in the town of Columbia alone the purchases of bacon during the preceding year had amounted to three and a half million pounds.

  • The dissented stock was from the tenth of October following to be considered as converted into an equal amount of three and a half per cents.

  • His intention was to propose the conversion of the three and a half into a three and a quarter per cent, stock, which should continue until October, 1854, after which period the interest should be reduced to three per cent.

  • The daily average consumption of rice in a family of five, is rated in the Straits' settlements at three and a quarter chupahs.

  • It is about three to three and one-half miles long and one and one-fourth miles wide.

  • Three and one-half to four miles further along is McKinney's, one of the oldest, best known and well established resorts on Lake Tahoe.

  • Running right across the toe of the peninsula from sea to sea, at a distance of three and a half miles from Cape Helles, is a ridge which rises in its highest part to the Achi Baba peak, 591 feet above sea level.

  • From Stewart River to the site of Fort Reliance,[10] seventy-three and a quarter miles, the Yukon is broad and full of islands.

  • It is three and a-half miles long and about half a mile in width.

  • For the first week of life one to two and one-half ounces are placed in each of the ten bottles, and two or three and one-half ounces for the last two weeks of the first month.

  • Size: In adults it is five inches long, three and one-half inches in breadth at its broadest part and two and one-half inches in thickness.

  • For those who like eggs lightly boiled, three minutes will be found sufficient; three and three-quarters to four minutes will be ample time to set the white nicely; and if liked hard, six or seven minutes will not be found too long.

  • Lay them in plenty of boiling water, with a little vinegar; boil them steadily, keeping them well covered with water for about one and one-half to two hours for small beets and two to three and one-half hours for large ones.

  • The ration per week on which the party was now put, was one hundred pounds of flour, twenty-six pounds of sugar, three and a half pounds of tea, with one sheep every alternate day.

  • You told my friends you intended to buy the railroad plot at three and a half," Courtney gladly reminded him.

  • Yes, I believe that it is even possible to serve society to such an extent as to earn a hundred million in the span of a human life, or an average of three million a year for thirty-three and one-third years.

  • To do so he must earn thirty thousand dollars a year for thirty-three and one-third years.

  • To earn that much one must earn on an average three hundred thousand dollars a year for thirty-three and one-third years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lady would; large river; round ball; three and; three dozen; three drops; three fifths; three gallons; three generations; three grains; three large; three miles; three million; three millions; three nights; three persons; three quarts; three small; three spoonfuls; three squadrons; three table; three types; three vertical; three weeks; three were; three wire