Example sentences of "three years [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen .
2 more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden
3 erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there .
4 Three years er three years , five years if he misbehaves , and Clayton , you say , eighteen .
5 Over the next three years D&B says its business will evolve into three different areas .
6 In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea .
7 He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment .
8 As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school .
9 The real boost for cellular radio will come in two to three years ' time with the introduction of the Europe-wide service , GSM .
10 Training is based on up to six years ' relevant job experience and includes on average two to three years ' study .
11 It was outlined in the Housing Act ( 1980 ) , which gave council tenants with three years ' residence the right to buy their properties at a substantial discount .
12 After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager .
13 The nuns were charged with ‘ splittist activity ’ and condemned to three years ' labour for being ‘ extremely arrogant ’ .
14 In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 .
15 Climate modelling and assessing environmental change will need more than three years ' data if it is to be enhanced .
16 She is also to serve three years ' probation and do community service at Hale House in Harlem .
17 But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea .
18 Beneath violent disorder comes the crime of affray ( section 3 ) , now defined in terms of threatening or using unlawful violence towards another , and carrying a maximum of three years ' imprisonment .
19 The basic offence in section 1 is that of possessing a firearm without a certificate , an offence which ( despite elements of strict liability ) carries a maximum of three years ' imprisonment .
20 James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion .
21 ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’
22 Two or even three years ' salary for a kitchen maid , £10 was , in fact , too low an estimate of the potential profit [ see Rizzo ] .
23 We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office .
24 Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all .
25 That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment .
26 The attitude of Charles Barry and the classical delegation hardened Scott 's resolve not to throw away over three years ' work and play into their hands by resigning .
27 First degree courses are usually of three years ' duration but are , in many instances , extended to include periods of professional training ( in industry , commerce or the public service ) or time spent abroad .
28 The course is of three years ' duration .
29 The course is of three years ' duration .
30 The course is of three years ' duration .
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