Example sentences of "[prep] three years [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years as Financial Secretary to the Treasury he entered the Cabinet as Minister of Education , in July 1962 . |
| 2 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 3 | Coleman was blamed for reducing the period of three years as originally fixed for the course of instruction in Vial 's time , to as little as three or four months , so that some men were sent out into practice at 19 , 18 , or even 17 years of age ( as a contrary example , Coleman 's nephew , E.C . |
| 4 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 5 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 6 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 7 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 8 | Lord Goddard was then in only his sixth year as Lord Chief Justice , never looked like someone about to retire , and indeed continued in office for three years after Sir Winston gave way as Prime Minister in 1955 . |
| 9 | My husband was banned for three years after he 'd killed me . ’ |
| 10 | On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 11 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 12 | THE Welsh Rugby Union has banned Neath from touring abroad for three years because they walked off the pitch in a pre-season friendly in France last August . |
| 13 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 14 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 15 | He could be out in three years if all went well . |
| 16 | It enables a non-trade creditor to present a petition within three years after the last trade debt has been paid instead of within only one year . |
| 17 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |
| 18 | According to DEC , Sun 's market share will dip to 30% within three years because of Sparc ‘ performance problems . ’ |
| 19 | He did not receive important legal documents relating to his case — including the testimony of witnesses — until three years after the trail ended . |
| 20 | There has been some difference of opinion as to what that case decided , but there is no dispute that the court held that the postponement of the consultation process with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge until three years after sentence was unlawful , and that it should take place as soon as possible after conviction . |
| 21 | ( 1980 ) found that children who maintained their improved weight one to three years after treatment had higher levels of exercise than peers who failed to do so . |
| 22 | Officials say that unless this can be speeded up , it will take up to three years before the detention centres can be emptied of their present populations . |
| 23 | The wise organization now engages a multi- disciplinary team up to three years before the system is commissioned which carefully investigates every aspect and agrees decisions with every individual affected — both inside and outside the organization . |
| 24 | ‘ It can take two to three years before an agent is in a position to provide accurate intelligence on ops and the movements of his colleagues , bombs and weapons . ’ |
| 25 | Many have spent up to three years as refugees and nearly all have been forced to flee from Salvadorean army and air force attacks on their homes . |
| 26 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 27 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |
| 28 | Middle-class families get their investment back in two to three years if they cook half their lunch every day in the cooker . |
| 29 | Spells as a curate in Doncaster and Ipswich were followed by three years as chaplain at St Andrew 's in Kowloon , 1929–31 , during which he studied Chinese at Hong Kong University . |