Example sentences of "[adv] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK . |
| 2 | Only three years since starting swimming competitively , she has won 45 medals . |
| 3 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 4 | Environmentalists were no longer ‘ the enemy within ’ , as Mrs Thatcher had described them only three years earlier . |
| 5 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 6 | Although the first revolt was crushed , Desmond Boal could still raise thirteen Unionist backbenchers ' signatures for the removal of O'Neill , and Lord Brookeborough , only three years after handing the premiership to O'Neill , was leading a whispering campaign against him . |
| 7 | Alexander himself died only three years later . |
| 8 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 9 | To that extent the Football Association were justified in taking this fixture back to the Sheffield stadium only three years after 95 Liverpool supporters died there . |
| 10 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 11 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 12 | The war is only three years away . |
| 13 | Only three years earlier , a similar symposium resulted in a 1986 volume on the same subject by one of the authors . |
| 14 | In 1808 the elder Burn sent William , at the age of 17 , to the office of Sir Robert Smirke , then only three years in the business and already being offered more business than he could safely undertake . |
| 15 | Not only is a comparison between only three years potentially misleading ; there are very considerable divergences between trends in victimization and recorded crime for specific offences , which are concealed by the coincidence in the overall direction ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Dowds et al . , |
| 16 | First , only three years after the death of the Young King , Geoffrey , heir to Brittany , died in a tournament , leaving |
| 17 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
| 18 | Margaret is a girl of only three years and is not of suitable age to take over this kingdom . |
| 19 | In 1819 , when Danzig had been the provincial capital for only three years , and for reasons that are unclear , the Prussians moved the function of administrative capital to Königsberg . |
| 20 | The situation now is particularly bad when compared with the situation only three years ago , when most of today 's newest graduates entered university . |
| 21 | Luke Alderton had been only three years old when Bart dumped his mother for Grace and his first memories were of tears and endless shouting . |
| 22 | Only three years ago women returners were the flavour of the month . |
| 23 | Only three years later Katherine Maltwood , FRSA , discovered one of the most important geomantic sites in the world , the Glastonbury Zodiac , and published her remarkable findings in two seminal works : Glastonbury 's Temple of the Stars , Enchantments of Britain and An Aerial Survey . |
| 24 | Isosceles , formed only three years ago in a £2bn-plus management buy-out , continues to pay its debts on time . |
| 25 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 26 | But he has good cause for fear — his dad was gunned to death in the street there only three years ago . |
| 27 | The axe at Jaguar 's Coventry plant will cut the workforce to 7,300 from 12,000 only three years ago . |
| 28 | The next World Cup is now only three years away if it is played in either South Africa or New Zealand . |
| 29 | It 's a temporary position , only three years , but there is obviously a desire on the part of the Embassy to integrate more , not only through the Accademia , but also for the purpose of contacts with English museums . |
| 30 | Only three years after the collapse of the projected EDC and Political Community structures , European integration was poised to take a great leap forward . |