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Example sentences for "three measures"

  • The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

  • Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.

  • Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

  • It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

  • So, as he was going ploughing, Bajun told Jhore to stay at home and cook the dinner and he bade him put into the pot three measures of rice.

  • Then he turned and abused Jhore for his folly; but Jhore said, "You yourself told me to put in three measures, and I have done so.

  • There was only one in the house; and Jhore thought, "My brother told me to put in three measures, and if I only put in one, I shall get into trouble.

  • So, as he was going ploughing, Bajun told Jhore to stay at home and cook the dinner, and he bade him put into the pot three measures of rice.

  • Some of its long lines, it is true, admit of being read as even-beat verses of three measures, e.

  • On the second beat of this the Second enters and runs twenty-three measures.

  • Then, after the return of the scherzo, we have a delightful coda of twenty-three measures.

  • Vogler then gave Beethoven a theme of three measures (the scale of C major, ~alla breve~).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    private member; shall continue; three and; three chapters; three companies; three days and three; three friends; three gallons; three generations; three hundred; three hundred and forty; three hundred thousand francs; three miles; three millions; three pairs; three pence; three places; three plates; three quarts; three regiments; three times; three turns; three weeks; three were; three white; three words