Example sentences of "three years [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the time since it was reviewed ( three years to the very month ) it has n't aged at all . |
| 2 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 3 | It certainly is the case that the Reagan administration was never able to duplicate the domestic policy triumphs of 1981 in the remaining three years of the first term . |
| 4 | where were the US , Britain and others during the last three years of the Palestinian Intifada ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |
| 7 | My father , after the experience of three years on the Western Front in the First World War was no longer a chapel man . |
| 8 | Its hero , Stanhope , a young officer who survived three years on the Western Front imbibing increasing quantities of whisky , saw death , the escape into nothingness , as the only answer to the squalor of the trenches and the daily horror of seeing brave men victims of the slaughter and wastage . |
| 9 | IBM Canada Ltd and Apple Canada Ltd say they have won an education technology supply contract from the New Brunswick government : the province is to invest $12.7m in education technology in the next three years with the first phase starting immediately with $2m investment . |
| 10 | It was the office in which , apart from a space of three years with the Independent Television Authority , he spent his entire career . |
| 11 | I seriously believe that she could be brought up to university standard in two or three years with the proper coaching . ’ |
| 12 | In Scotland last year , husbands lost their immunity from rape in marriage after a test case , and earlier this year , in Leicester , a man was jailed for three years for the lesser offence of attempting to rape his wife . |
| 13 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 14 | A FORMER tyre depot manager involved in drug dealing was jailed for three years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 15 | Singapore fell to the Japanese 50 years ago this year , three years into the second world war . |
| 16 | It was magnificent ; the neutral tone accentuated the rich tints of her skin , which , after three years under the Jamaican sun , was the colour of medium roast Blue Mountain coffee . |
| 17 | IS IT REALLY ONLY three years since the infamous incident when drunken revellers used champagne to flush a broken nightclub toilet ? |
| 18 | This year 's Republican Party primary elections mark the first time that the controversies of the past three years over the National Endowment for the Arts , the federal agency charged with arts support , have entered the realm of American presidential politics . |
| 19 | Any President has difficulty making a substantial impact even in a full term , and Kennedy tragically had only three years in the highest office . |
| 20 | He had three years in the Civil Service after Oriental Languages at Cambridge . |
| 21 | Corinna Cochrane ( Mrs Peterson ) became a headmaster 's wife after three years in the Civil Service . |
| 22 | Appointment will be on the Lecturer Grade B scale ; £16,014–£20,469 p.a. ( under review ) for three years in the first instance . |
| 23 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 24 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 25 | ( There were no recurrences after three years in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients . ) |
| 26 | And £3.5m has been provided in the past three years from the Social Fund to help the young and long-term unemployed . |
| 27 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 28 | Yet the World Bank has conducted and published project audits on average seven years after the first disbursement of funds , and three years after the final year of disbursement . |
| 29 | The first order has been granted by the Scottish Office , three years after the original application , to Scallop Kings of Crinan , one of Scotland 's biggest shellfish operators . |
| 30 | And in the two or three years before the Second World War that is precisely what he did . |