Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under preparation for three years , the bill set up the framework for the legal operation of private radio and television stations and for an independent public broadcasting system . |
| 2 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 3 | Well when you 're elected as a councillor , you 've got provision for three years , that 's right , I got re-elected after three years , after three months there they changed their minds and decided to put er , a labour council in , so I mean . |
| 4 | In 1985 the Welsh Office agreed to fund a Special Needs Liaison Officer for Wales PPA for three years to support the referral schemes in the counties . |
| 5 | Parliament showed its power further in the mid-1980s by delaying the budget for three years in succession . |
| 6 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 7 | By November of that year Henry the Lion had been defeated and banished from Germany for three years . |
| 8 | The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years . |
| 9 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 10 | Tees Valley Tourism , a partnership between the public and private sectors , was set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years . |
| 11 | During the last three months of the year some 500,000 jobs were lost , and by December overall unemployment had risen to 7,600,000 , or 6.1 per cent of the labour force , the highest level for three years . |
| 12 | As I 've said , I 've been on H R T for three years and , I have since went back to work after being on H R T I do n't think I 'm an old hag ! |
| 13 | She had not seen the building for three years and the projecting , metal construction offended her as impetigo would , sprouting from the face of a beautiful woman . |
| 14 | Problem No. 2 : Ill health meant no knitting for three years . |
| 15 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 16 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 17 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 18 | CONTOUR has now been in existence for three years . |
| 19 | He had studied literature with the Open University for three years , and already planned , albeit theoretically , to complete an honours degree and go on to do some postgraduate work . |
| 20 | He played for the university for three years , being a three-quarter in the renowned XV captained by Harry ( ‘ Jugs ’ ) Vassall . |
| 21 | In 1838 he was ordained , returned to Italy , and then undertook charge of the Episcopal chapel in Forres for three years . |
| 22 | Mother 's body kept in kitchen for three years . |
| 23 | Being unfit for military service , in 1917 he accepted appointment as lecturer in history and English literature for three years at St Paul 's College , Calcutta , where the poverty of the people made a deep impression on him . |
| 24 | Been in C U for three years . |
| 25 | The owners in May , 1973 , had entered into a very advantageous agreement to charter the tanker on completion to Shell for three years , and they would have lost this advantage if the yard carried out its threat . |
| 26 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 27 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 28 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 29 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 30 | Perry Anderson , who lives part of the year in Sherman Oaks while he teaches as UCLA , was reminded of what his parents saw in December 1941 , after they landed in San Francisco after three years of being bombed in South China . |