Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've erm , returned to work contracting and in fact , at Commercial Union for the last three years . |
| 2 | Mr Tapie is the driving force at Marseille , who have dominated the French league for the last three years . |
| 3 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 4 | This year we are investing a record £1000m in science , an increase of seven per cent on last year , and the budget will continue to rise in real terms for the next three years . |
| 5 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 6 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 7 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 8 | Mr Lamont has also put his mark on Tory budgets for the next three years , regardless of whether he remains Chancellor . |
| 9 | My key word for the next three days is born here out of a conversation with the increasingly vocal and 45-degree angled Fyfe . |
| 10 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 11 | A revised timetable for the next three QT days will be sent to you all when finalised . |
| 12 | Among measures that spelt out economic strategy for the next three years , the biggest shock to householders was the introduction of 17.5 per cent VAT on domestic fuel bills by 1995 with an 8pc rate by April next year . |
| 13 | The two power stations awarded licenses by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , are Richborough in Kent and Ince in Merseyside , which have both been burning the fuel on an experimental basis for the last three years . |
| 14 | Somerset have signed Pakistan legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed , 22 , as their overseas player for the next three years . |
| 15 | The Edinburgh Labour Party Conference decision did not deter the supporters of " Unity " , though it ended the campaign for Communist affiliation for the next three years . |
| 16 | Before it 's I 'm gon na save the hot water for the next three weeks ! |
| 17 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 18 | The company is committed to pay 5% of total salaries for the next three years . |
| 19 | The Shah asked for £75 million a year in , military aid for the next three years , but Dulles thought this was excessive . |
| 20 | On Jan. 29 Kohl promised a further DM8,300 million towards the US military campaign for the first three months of 1991 plus further military assistance to Turkey ( air defence missiles and 600-strong crew ) and to Israel . |
| 21 | The schemes now are paid a pension at fifty , but the only , the only snag I understand is it is n't inflation , inflation proofed until fifty-five , but people are drawing their pensions and they get their lump sums at fifty and it 's enhanced to take into account the actual and expected earnings for the next three years , so er you take thirty thousand people , one point seven billion can soon erm |
| 22 | New programmes for the next three years include a research study on women in the media in some Asian countries , workshops in South Asia for women 's alternative media , and a wider concern for advocacy in women 's media issues . |
| 23 | Final competences for the first three levels ( supervisory , junior and middle managers ) are due in October 1990 together with procedures for MCI endorsement of awards . |
| 24 | Not long after this , Lewis and Williams met in London , as they continued to do at irregular intervals for the next three years . |
| 25 | He has just set ambitious new targets for the next three years . |
| 26 | In my experience , any combination of the above ensures continuous rain for the next three months ! |
| 27 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 28 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 29 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 30 | And it has deterred any potential aggressor for the last three decades . |