Example sentences of "[adj] three years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 2 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 3 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 4 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 5 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 6 | For twenty three years I lived in England , and with the exception of the Falklands Conflict , I have never felt an emotion for my country like the Americans experience for theirs . |
| 7 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
| 8 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 9 | For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts . |
| 10 | Over the past three years we invested in new models , new manufacturing facilities and capacity . ’ |
| 11 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 12 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
| 13 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
| 14 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
| 15 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 16 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 17 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 18 | During the past three years he had knocked as much as 40 seconds off his five-mile mark . |
| 19 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 20 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 21 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 22 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 23 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 24 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 25 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 26 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 27 | Over the last three years it has killed at least 20 people . |
| 28 | Did you say that ? dead lucky , never of done last three years it 's rained . |
| 29 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 30 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |