Example sentences of "[adj] in three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under John Irvine 's leadership the 100 who came have grown to over 300 in three years . |
| 2 | It is of course the string of public transport disasters that has brought such a widespread public reaction — six in three years , with 193 lives lost on Herald of Free Enterprise at Zeebrugge ; 31 deaths in the Kings Cross Underground fire ; 35 deaths at the Clapham rail crash ; 270 lost in the Lockerbie bomb blast ; 47 claimed in the M1 air crash and most recently , 51 in the River Thames from the Marchioness . |
| 3 | Ian Hannah is likely to receive a much heavier punishment after his fifth sending-off in three years at Bradford . ’ |
| 4 | The data was taken from trials at Silsoe College of tanker and umbilical hose systems between October 1 and March 31 in three years — 1986/7 ( average rainfall ) , 1987/8 ( wet ) and 1988/9 ( dry ) . |
| 5 | I 'll be fifty in three years . |
| 6 | The duke , who owns large chunks of Mayfair , lost £1.265 billion in three years , largely due to the collapse in the property market , according to BusinessAge magazine . |
| 7 | On jobs , he predicted an end to the cuts that have taken Wimpey 's UK workforce down 30 per cent to under 11,000 in three years . |
| 8 | With only 309 of 24,000 schools having chosen to become grant-maintained in three years , one minister recently warned that ‘ the gloves are off ’ in the fight against town halls . |
| 9 | The company 's workforce has been almost halved to 102 in three years . |
| 10 | Mike Mahoney , Newcastle 's director of rugby , set the target of promotion to Division One in three years when he moved into the Kingston Park hot seat . |
| 11 | It will be £500 million in three years . |
| 12 | He is pushing for initial funding of $A5 million rising to $A15 million in three years . |
| 13 | It forecasts moving volumes in the low thousands in three years and wants to represent 10% of Opus ’ business . |
| 14 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |