Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 2 | There will be firms who are practising today who will probably figure in the er top one hundred in the city who in my opinion will not be practising in that shape or form three years from now . |
| 3 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 4 | Unexpectedly , the show 's catalogue text is an appreciation of the artist by Josef Beuys who , although born three years after Lehmbruck 's death , refers to him as his teacher . |
| 5 | It was ordained that anyone hunting the deer in that forest without royal licence was to pay a fine and suffer three years imprisonment . |
| 6 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 7 | He was released in 1960 and rehabilitated three years later . |
| 8 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 9 | He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment . |
| 10 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 11 | He was imprisoned near Harar and died three years later , a physical wreck at thirty-seven . |
| 12 | He had stopped off to collect some winnings at a nearby betting shop before going to pay his gas bill and deposit three years ' savings at a bank . |
| 13 | A tiny Leith Marine Stokers ' Union was formed in July 1893 but disappeared three years later " on grounds of scarcity of members " . |
| 14 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |