Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 2 | I have to admit that after three years of using Q&A I have n't memorized all of the mainly function key-driven keyboard shortcuts , but those that I ca n't remember are easily brought back to mind with a tap of the F1 key which lists them . |
| 3 | That message needs to be got home , I 'm pleased to note this evening that after three years of making these suggestions you have at last started to accept some of them . |
| 4 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 5 | In 1991 , the brothers are believed to have inherited an estimated £500,000 when a Jersey court ruled that after three years the missing couple could be presumed dead . |
| 6 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 7 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 8 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 9 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 10 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 11 | And for three years , it earned its return , every month . |
| 12 | He installed his wife and family in a large London house , and for three years plied a profitable export trade between England and Australia . |
| 13 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 14 | Isambard himself went to Paris to study at the age of fourteen , and after three years returned to join his father 's firm . |
| 15 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 16 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 17 | Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 . |
| 18 | Work started immediately , and within three years the scheme was completed . |
| 19 | From 1985 he began evening classes and within three years had passed two O-levels and two A-levels . |
| 20 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 21 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 22 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 23 | And in three years time Ford will unveil its challenge to the Renault Espace multi-purpose vehicle . |
| 24 | Pilade was the only one to whom she showed her true self and at three years of age this was no burden to him . |
| 25 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 26 | After he had completed his apprenticeship he went out to India as manager of the Fort Gloster mills , but after three years returned to Glasgow and in 1838 joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine accessories . |
| 27 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 28 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 29 | But within three years all that had gone as well . |
| 30 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |