Using IF LARGE when there is text in column

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Published on 2014-06-05T13:39:27Z Indexed on 2014/06/05 15:25 UTC
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I have an excel column of numbers and texts. I tried to use "IF LARGE" to find top 3 numbers of the column (A1 to A7), and return "Yes" to the cells right next to the top 3 (in column B). But unfortunately, the cells next to the texts also returned "Yes". This is the data:

0.2         
0.3     Yes
0.5     Yes
0.1
0.8     Yes
asdf    Yes
jklm    Yes

This is the code for cell B7:

=IF(A7>=LARGE($A$1:$A$7,3),"Yes","")

Any suggestions to fix this? thanks in advance

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