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Example sentences for "three successive"

  • That the common fields within the township of Hitchin have immemorially been and ought to be kept and cultivated in three successive seasons of tilthgrain, etchgrain, and fallow.

  • The seriousness of the disease was, however, at length recognized, so that the members of the Medical Society debated the subject at three successive meetings.

  • These were, indeed, three successive seasons of fatal diarrhoea, mostly infantile, as I shall show in the chapter on that disease.

  • The whitening or bleaching is performed by three successive operations.

  • This mixture is heated and applied in three successive coats, with a very fine long-haired brush.

  • The armies of the Eastern empire were vanquished in three successive engagements; and the progress of Attila may be traced by the fields of battle.

  • Three successive views to illustrate the growth of the Island of Savaii from the outflow of lava at Matavanu in the year 1906.

  • At court, though no trifler or flatterer, he was a favourite counsellor in three successive reigns, but he never meddled much in civil or temporal affairs.

  • Of his many mistresses the one for whom his passion lasted longest was a certain Vannozza (Giovanna) dei Cattani, born in 1442, and wife of three successive husbands.

  • Rance then put on steam and set Jackwell down on three successive strikes.

  • Then Miles, the last hope, came up, and Joe wound up the game in a blaze of glory by letting him down on three successive strikes.

  • But the noise subsided somewhat as Jim put on steam and set down Mollocher on three successive strikes.

  • The Council of Regency unfolded a heroic activity in carrying out his measures for the defence of the land, and divisions of Norwegian troops beat the Swedes in three successive fights (Toverud, Trangen, and Prestebakke).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    national spirit; outward bound; responsible government; three battalions; three cases; three centuries; three colours; three columns; three days; three fathom; three horses; three leaves; three lemons; three letters; three lions; three miles from the; three persons; three pints; three places; three quarts; three rooms; three small; three stages; three vertical; three were; wold have