Example sentences of "[prep] three years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years without success D'Arcy feared that the venture would fail . |
| 2 | He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him . |
| 3 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 4 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 5 | For their $283m the 75 investors that KKR represents will get preferred stock , convertible after three years into Fleet/Norstar stock at $17.65 a share , plus 6.5m warrants for newly issued Fleet/Norstar stock exercisable immediately at the same price , the last closing price before the purchase was announced . |
| 6 | Strawberry plants deteriorate after three years of cropping and need re-siting . |
| 7 | AFTER three years of inconclusive negotiations , the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa had no doubts about the difficulties of doing business in China . |
| 8 | This paralysis may ensure that , after three years of breathtaking growth , the Thai economy has a hard rather than a soft landing . |
| 9 | After three years of exceptionally low rainfall , especially on the eastern side of England , it is of more than academic interest to know just how much rain has fallen on the garden . |
| 10 | After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications . |
| 11 | Many postgraduates after three years of thinking in the abstract feel quite stupid when required to think concretely . ) |
| 12 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 13 | Perry Anderson , who lives part of the year in Sherman Oaks while he teaches as UCLA , was reminded of what his parents saw in December 1941 , after they landed in San Francisco after three years of being bombed in South China . |
| 14 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 15 | It is only after three years of political persuasion and in-fighting that tournament officials have overcome enough local opposition from environmentalists — conveniently forgetting that the site used to be a rubbish tip — for a permanent stadium to be built . |
| 16 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 17 | After three years of groping in the dark they have emerged not quite into sparkling sunshine but at least into the hint of a new dawn . |
| 18 | AFTER three years of negotiations with Irish Rail , the Irish Traction Group has taken delivery of its first locomotive , 201 ( c ) class No. 226 , the first Irish mainline diesel to pass into private ownership . |
| 19 | Despite Zoila 's everyday contact with English speakers in the USA , her use of English after three years of learning was very poor . |
| 20 | When year after year the General Nursing Council failed one-third of candidates taking SRN examinations after three years of preparation , few questioned the proportion ( Nursing Times , 1972 ) . |
| 21 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 22 | AFTER three years of hinting about it , Gencor , one of South Africa 's biggest conglomerates , finally announced on May 11th that it will break itself up . |
| 23 | After three years of redrafting and hard debate , a large majority in the Council was able to welcome a text reflecting both the ideas and the spirit of the more ‘ pastoral ’ tendency . |
| 24 | It was started in January 1991 with 51 pupils , after three years of preparation . |
| 25 | After three years of restoration , Veronese 's ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ is the centre of a small exhibition , until 9 November , of the discoveries made by the restorers in the course of their work . |
| 26 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 27 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 28 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 29 | The US government has long argued forcefully that GATT free trade rules should apply to all services ; and in 1985 , after three years of negotiation , the US position was incorporated nearly intact into OECD 's Declaration on Transborder Data Flows . |
| 30 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |