Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 2 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 3 | Their secretary , Mrs. Fryer , was presented with ‘ a spontaneous gift of a gold watch for her three years as secretary ’ . |
| 4 | He dumped his beautician wife Jewel for her three years ago — but his relationship with Tessa has now ended . |
| 5 | Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 6 | A MAN paralysed by a rare disease told yesterday of his three years trapped in his frozen body . |
| 7 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 8 | Ironically , she was an office manager with a firm of personnel consultants and had done well in her three years with the company . |
| 9 | Ken Lucas , the honorary secretary described the achievements of the Society in its three years of existence , our monthly meetings , our quarterly Journal , the restoration of the platform at Horderley , the commencement of work on the Glenburrell bridge ( suspended for the nonce because of other commitments ) , the acquisition of the GWR coach from Clunbury , and the negotiations over the proposed acquisition of the goods van at Eaton . |
| 10 | The New Zealand Forest Corporation had been highly successful in its three years of operation . |
| 11 | Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians . |
| 12 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 13 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 14 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 15 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 16 | This scientific enthusiasm was invaluable during his three years as President of the Royal Geographical Society and it has earned him a place on the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 17 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |