Example sentences of "past three years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 2 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 3 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |
| 4 | Over the past three years we invested in new models , new manufacturing facilities and capacity . ’ |
| 5 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 6 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 7 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 8 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 9 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 10 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 11 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 12 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 13 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 14 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |