It was world news when three big snowstorms hit in the winter of 2009-10.
Why lug 10 ounces of shampoo to the shore when three will more than suffice?
The mood changed on Thursday when three cruise ships stopped to provide food and provisions.
The Festina trial in the aftermath of the 1998 Tour, when three teams were expelled, exposed endemic doping.
Bush when three cases were joined, is credited with opening the door for the blizzard of litigation that followed.
The most recent cases came on Wednesday, when three people became ill after taking it at the same time.
The delay had been caused by the need to "find a suitable date when three, non-conflicted panel members are available".
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The Clapham Junction crash in December 1988 killed 35 people when three morning rush hour trains collided in south London.
The last visit, he said, was about a year and a half ago when three FBI agents came to the door.
Part of Norwich market was cordoned off when three fire crews were called to rescue a gull caught in a tree.
Her uncle was among the men lost in the triple trawler tragedy of January and February 1968 when three vessels sank.
Mr Robson, a leading air engineering mechanic, was on the flight deck manning light machine guns when three bombs struck the ship.
Mr Gibb said he was struggling to get the water out when three men arrived with brooms and helped with the clean-up.
This month came fresh insights into the cavalier lending practices of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, when three of its former executives were arrested.
D'Arcy missed the conversion and Agen made a fight of it when three minutes later, Caucaunibuca ran in a try on the left.
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The last was in 2006, when three outsiders moved into a house just before the deadline and petitioned to stand for city offices.
That would follow the script from 1998 when three rate cuts between September and November helped to bring the LTCM crisis to a speedy end.
Anheuser-Busch's Super Bowl ad scramble started in earnest in early December when three Chicago agencies--Omnicom's DDB Worldwide, the Leap Partnership and Fusion IdeaLab--pitched final storyboards.
The American onslaught was finally halted at Royal St George's in 1934 when three-time winner Henry Cotton clinched the first of six successive British victories.
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The most exciting research on the aspirin-cancer connection came last year, when three related studies were published simultaneously in The Lancet and The Lancet Oncology.
Spot-fixing shook the world of cricket last year when three Pakistan internationals were jailed for conspiracy to corrupt during a Test match against England in 2010.
Indeed this case came to light when three girls travelled to Delhi to file a complaint about their mistreatment, a senior Rohtak official told the BBC.
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The action followed an inspection at the Euticals plant following an incident two weeks ago, when three workers were taken to hospital following a chemical spill.
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When three years of full-time higher education at the age of 18 was free, good and rare, the returns to almost any course were unsurprisingly juicy.
The exact circumstances of the case, which was heard earlier this month, when three children were removed from their home and placed in care, are not known.
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The court later heard that an argument broke out at the house on the night of the fire when three teenage girls visited Middleton and his wife.
There was just one scary moment at the Viktualienmarkt branch early in the morning, when three customers in quick succession paid with DM50 and DM 100 notes respectively.
Driver touted the safety of his trading methods, outlining risk management techniques that included the promise that trading would stop on a given day when three unprofitable trades occurred.
The report also criticised the "apparent indecisiveness" shown by the agencies when three weeks elapsed between the first 2011 alert on 11 January and the second on 4 February.
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For instance, when three years ago vacuum coating equipment maker, ESTO-Vacuum, realized that in order to survive in the market it needed to expand, it sought capital from Rusnano.
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