there were three # 10_2SA_02_18 # And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe. 
there were three # 44_ACT_11_11 # And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me. 
there were three # 27_DAN_07_08 # I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 
there were three # 01_GEN_29_02 # And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well's mouth.