three-four time

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noun

music a form of simple triple time in which there are three crotchet beats to the bar, indicated by the time signature 4 4Often shortened to: three-four Also called (esp US and Canadian): three-quarter time

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Words nearby three-four time

three-day measles, three-decker, three-dimensional, Three Fires, threefold, three-four time, three-gaited, three-handed, Three Hours, three-legged, three-legged race

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How to use three-four time in a sentence

Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.
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But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
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As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
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Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.
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It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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