An afterthought to (and some additional information on) the Today programme's three-item (one, two, three) 'don't lock them up' fest of last Thursday, noted by David here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-16] Reference

I do love Yazza (who now has a richly-deserved, full, three-item page in the Indie - today featuring a fetching photograph of the late Queen of Hearts), but she does walk a fine line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yazza - "Rich Businessmen for Bin Laden ?"] Reference

Answer: It ran as part of a three-item story labeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain-Terminal.com Full Feed] Reference

If you want to serve your country, here's a three-item to-do list.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

The Sri Lankan economy is still a three-item economy --- tea, rubber and tourism.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntelliBriefs] Reference

We may struggle to remember a three-item grocery list, and yet there the actors are.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to My mother a great authority at censors: Saif Ali Khan] Reference

After we ordered our waters and diet cokes (FYI, taps here were ok, nothing to worry about), he took our simple three-item order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoboken411.com] Reference

And while the bees could pick out the three-item pattern from four about 70 percent of the time, they didn't consistently do four-to-four matches when paired with three, five or six-item patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

Outline your three-step to-do list using an offline to-do planner (which we outline in another chapter); or if you're working online, use a three-item FocusList to keep you focused on the task at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

A three-item anxiety sub-scale of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale turned out to be a better screening tool than the two other abbreviated versions, which are almost the same as the commonly used Patient Health Questionnaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [thetowntalk.com -] Reference

For the uninitiated, Amazon offers several rounds of three-item deals, everyone votes on one of the three deals, and limited quantities of the winning items are sold at various times and dates throughout the holidays to randomly selected voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CrunchGear] Reference

Think cujo359 did a nice little three-item timeline on this — was you, cujo, wasn’t it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Where’s the Stamp?] Reference

On the other hand, in (4a), if you don’t know who Alia Shawkat is, then you may reasonably conclude that the commas are intended to indicate an appositive and that Alia Shawkat is my Congresswoman. (4b) is clearer; since Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera can’t both be my Congresswoman, it’s clear that I was constructing a three-item list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar] Reference