Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 2 | Nobel has three years to reduce its assets and pay off Nordbanken . |
| 3 | The degree of BMus requires three years of study , or four years if a student reads for honours . |
| 4 | The scheme is an adaptation of an idea that the Japan Electronic Machinery Industry Association developed three years ago to guide ambulances and rescue vehicles through cities . |
| 5 | Mr Don Steele , spokesman for Action on Alcohol Abuse , said the book tried to revive arguments that the industry lost three years ago . |
| 6 | General words will be implied in all leases ( other than an agreement for lease for a term exceeding three years ( Borman v Griffith [ 1930 ] 1 Ch 493 ) ) unless a contrary intention appears in the lease . |
| 7 | They allow their secretaries to hoard three years supply of sticky tape their personnel people to stock six years ' supply of appraisal forms ( when most managers would do better with blank sheets ) and their engineers to " buffer out " with an indefinite supply of obsolete parts . |
| 8 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 9 | The Department of Trade and Industry gave three years of core programme funding to it and makes annual grants to the NDC and other regional development agencies to undertake our important and beneficial inward investment promotional work . |
| 10 | My major intervention in medical matters came three years after my Rhodesian episode . |
| 11 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 12 | The honours programme lasts four years while the ordinary degree takes three years . |
| 13 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 14 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 15 | The famous luxury liner and the prestigious London hotel have both plunged in value since the slump started three years . |
| 16 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 17 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 18 | A STRONG attack has been made on ministers for failing to deliver on promises made three years ago to build a new dental hospital in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | The new car will be a coupe version of the Rover 800 executive car and will be styled on the CCV concept car which Rover designed three years ago . |
| 20 | She lost the baby and she and her husband divorced three years later . |
| 21 | The painting , which has undergone restoration lasting three years without being moved from its place in the Salle des Fëtes housing Italian Renaissance works , was ripped in five places on 3 June , although the Louvre kept the information secret for a fortnight . |
| 22 | On leaving school , Terry Williams served three years as a commissioned officer in The Royal Warwickshire Regiment , before moving to West Africa to pursue a career in banking . |
| 23 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 24 | The follow up period lasted three years , and the largest number of cycles observed was 33 . |
| 25 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 26 | On Sept. 28 , after a trial lasting three years , the former chief of the Aviation Security Command , Brig. -Gen . |
| 27 | In the case of the PhD , a supervised course lasting three years in the case of full-time students , the portfolio should normally include one major work , the performance of which would occupy an entire evening : for example , an opera . |
| 28 | Ireland — home , as Joseph called it — had been a powder keg since the Easter Rising three years ago . |
| 29 | The exhibition was called ‘ Take Five Plus ’ an original name developed three years ' ago when five designers clubbed together for their first exhibition . |
| 30 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |