Three in a sentence as a noun

Two and three year project queues are the norm.

" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs.

There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming.

It has been heavily gentrified, developed, and restructured over the past three decades.

Three in a sentence as an adjective

Also at university I had someone who, over three classes taken together, had graduated from "rubs me the wrong way" to "nemesis.

There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly.

Traditionally, a university had four faculties, the lower or artists faculty, and the three higher faculties of theology, law and medicine.

We become intimately familiar with his three-year-old daughter's escapades with Cheerios and love of Phineas & Ferb.- Judging from the number of sirens, Jake apparently lives in a bad part of town or is watching Blues Brothers in the background.- Lucy has apparently joined while sitting in a conference room, attending another meeting simultaneously.- Robert joins 15 minutes late and would like everything he missed to be recapped.- Mark absolutely will not let the meeting progress unless someone is recording.

Three definitions

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

See also: trio threesome tierce leash troika triad trine trinity ternary

noun

one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips

See also: trey

adjective

being one more than two