Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 2 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 3 | Talking about it as a revolution in the wider world , and how it impacts on classrooms , there has , of course , been a tremendously increased interest in using micros in schools in the last three years . |
| 4 | Children whose parents were non-native speakers of English , or who had resided in a non-English-speaking country for more than six months in the previous three years , were excluded . |
| 5 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 6 | According to Brussels-based research firm Expertronics , of 340 disclosed acquisitions involving European companies in the past three years , 135 were by UK-based companies . |
| 7 | Internal stability units were being established in northern Natal , the flashpoint of much of the violence between rival black groups which has claimed nearly 8,000 lives in the past three years , and in East Rand 's troubled townships . |
| 8 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market . |
| 9 | The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby . |
| 10 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 11 | The figures in the first three years of the Long-Term Costing are detailed and relatively firm because they are fixed by the Public Expenditure Survey Committee each year — hence they are referred to in Whitehall jargon as the PESC years . |
| 12 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 13 | But with a constant round of hotel openings — Hilton has opened 25 properties in the past three years and has 15 in development — he does n't actually get a lot of time behind the desk . |
| 14 | Walker , who won the Heisman Trophy for the best college player and is regarded as one of the leading rushers in the NFL , was exchanged for Darrin Nelson ( running back ) , Issiac Holt ( defensive back ) , David Howard and Jesse Solomon ( both linebackers ) and Alex Stewart ( defensive end ) plus a first-round and up to six other draft picks in the next three years . |
| 15 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 16 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 17 | Table 1 shows the overall performance of Scottish exports in the last three years expressed in both current and constant [ 1985 ] prices . |
| 18 | This is due in part to the fact that President Ibrahim Babangida has already postponed the promised handover to civilian government three times in the past three years . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 20 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 21 | The numbers and types of printers have increased rapidly in the last three years , but we would not expect any rapid increase in numbers in the next three years . |
| 22 | Sixteen out of 30 women at a branch in Andover , Hants , have given birth to 17 children in the last three years . |
| 23 | A member of Stevens and Bolton 's commercial litigation department , he was asked to advise the national Campaign to Clean up Copier Contracts because of his success in dealing with many complaints in the past three years . |
| 24 | Dr Ger Van Vliet , scientific director of the Botanical Gardens in Lieden , said his tasks in the next three years would be to make customs officials more aware of endangered plants , reducing the illegal trade , and help countries supplying wild plants to sell correctly propagated specimens . |
| 25 | Sixty eight ( 38% ) had not had contact with social or voluntary services in the previous three years ; 51 ( 28% ) had been advised to contact social services ‘ if the need arose ’ ; and only 62 ( 34% ) people had received regular visits from social services personnel ( social workers , occupational therapists , etc ) . |
| 26 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 27 | For example , the warranty may state that there are and have been no disputes with employees in the last three years . |
| 28 | Executive member Pat Lynch said people were too terrified to go sick in an industry which has shed 70,000 jobs in the past three years . |