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Example sentences for "three officers"

  • In that region the Russians captured fifty-three officers and 2,200 men.

  • British caught them napping by striking two hours earlier, with the result that they captured three officers and 289 men.

  • Do you remember the automobile that went up the ramp just before the shooting that had a flashing red light on top of it and two or three officers in the car?

  • There was two or three officers at that time, we observed, in the basement.

  • This police car had its red lights on, flashing, and there were two or three officers in the car.

  • The latter corps consisted of three officers and 43 men, armed with Enfield rifles and equipment, but were without uniforms.

  • Singular fate of three Officers of the Queen's Royals.

  • Singular fate of Three Officers of the Queen's Royals.

  • A number of them carried torches, and all worked steadily and in good order, under the direction of two or three officers.

  • I should think that the best way would be to have a committee of three officers to value them, and the saddlery; and then you might authorize him to receive your extra pay as interpreter, and to place it to Hitchcock's account.

  • Three officers, only, made their escape; of these, two were wounded.

  • Up to the present time we have captured in this region fifty-three officers, 9,183 men, eight cannon, and fifteen machine guns.

  • Two or three officers endeavoured to drag their horses up, but the animals, although pretty well accustomed by this time to stiff places, were quite unable to get up, and one or two tumbled backwards and were nearly killed.

  • Three officers are to sleep in each bell-tent, and one mule is allowed for two bell-tents.

  • After having seen my tent erected and my rations drawn and on the fire, I walked on with two or three officers of the 33d to see the church.

  • Major Elsdale did what he could to improve equipment, and urged that two or three officers should be appointed to give their whole time to balloons and to form the nucleus of a balloon corps.

  • In March 1912 Colonel Seely had announced in the House of Commons that there would be required at once for the Military Wing a hundred and thirty-three officers, and for the Naval Wing about thirty or forty officers.

  • The site had been selected in the year 1852 by a commission of three officers, but as yet no navy yard existed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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