Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 2 | The council 's policy and finance subcommittee meets on Wednesday to consider a 10pc increase the firs t review for three years . |
| 3 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 4 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 5 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 6 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 7 | She was fined £3,900 , ordered to forfeit her Ford Fiesta car , worth £800 , and banned from driving for three years . |
| 8 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 9 | PETER Anthony George , 41 , of Amberley Close , Moreton , was fined £315 and banned from driving for three years by Wirral magistrates . |
| 10 | John Turnbull , 49 , of Minehead Gardens , Silksworth , Sunderland , was yesterday banned from driving for three years , fined £450 and ordered to pay costs of £25 by Durham City magistrates after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 11 | Magistrates banned Wilson , who is working as a labourer in the Darlington area , from driving for three years and fined him £350 . |
| 12 | A MOTORCYCLIST who had been drinking and was doing 122mph when stopped by police on the M9 near Linlithgow , was fined £350 and banned from driving for three years at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 13 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 14 | To assess the value of gastroscopic cancer surveillance of patients with pernicious anaemia , 56 patients were re-endoscoped and biopsied after three years . |
| 15 | To that extent , the Circular received a cautious welcome in the art world , but nothing very concrete occurred until three years later when , on 1 September 1974 , the NCDAD merged with the CNAA . |
| 16 | The Sheffield Wednesday stalwart insisted last night : ‘ I aim to be still playing at the top when the next World Cup qualifying bid starts in three years time . |
| 17 | Patients with this condition occurring within three years of the date of the study were identified and those still under the care of the endoscopy service were recalled . |
| 18 | Is this enough , particularly in the case of the operated transsexual , remembering that proceedings for a decree of nullity must now be instituted within three years of the date of the marriage ? |
| 19 | Its founding collection , Clement Litill 's Library , was deposited by bequest with the Toun and Kirk of Edinburgh in 1580 , and thus pre-dates by three years the founding of the College which was to become the University of Edinburgh . |
| 20 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 21 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 22 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 23 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 24 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
| 25 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 26 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 27 | The peppers are pulped , then left to mature for three years before being distilled with vinegar . |
| 28 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 29 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 30 | As part of that deal he agreed to pay $38m to his 49 per cent partner in the purchase , Francis Murray , if Murray wanted to sell after three years . |