Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 4 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 5 | ‘ For instance all the Big 10 trusts could ( if they so chose ) fund a 5% dividend increase from reserves for three years assuming maintained earnings , ’ the brokers write . |
| 6 | He added that the Scottish Office remained committed to the new dental hospital and institute and had guaranteed capital funds for three years . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary , Sir Samuel Hoare , noted that any influx of refugees from the continent might bring together the political extremes — the fascists who had been attacking the Jews for three years and the communists and other left-wing elements who might argue that Jewish refugees were taking away Gentile employment . |
| 8 | JOE JACKSON Over from New York to give his first London performances for three years . |
| 9 | My husband and I have had separate bedrooms for three years . |
| 10 | Bull confirmed that those taking unpaid leave will get a bonus proportional to the duration of their absence ( three months salary for a year , six months for two years , nine months for three years ) , but that they will have no guarantee of getting their job back after the leave . |
| 11 | Several politicians and lawyers suggested that " ordinary " constitutional changes required ratification by seven provinces within three years , whilst amendments to key provisions of the constitution required unanimous approval without a time limit . |
| 12 | The ground floor has an out-patients department , for children from six months to three years , and also for adults . |
| 13 | the high spot For babies from six months to three years this portable high chair fits securely onto any suitable , stable surface . |
| 14 | In general a short-term objective would be eighteen months to three years ahead and a long term objective ten to fifteen years . |
| 15 | The Assembly also approved the draft law on information , providing for prison terms of five to 10 years for publishing " erroneous or tendentious information threatening state security or the national interest " and prison terms of six months to three years for offending Islam or other religions . |
| 16 | There are , however , reports of heavy natural infections of adult worms and larvae associated with catarrhal and haemorrhagic enteritis , with thickening and oedema of the mucosa , especially in animals of six months to three years of age . |
| 17 | The first involved the extension of duty exemption on cement imports for three years , and the second arose from an order instructing the Bureau of Inland Revenue to refund to mining companies some 2,000 million pesos ( US$1=23.8713 pesos as at Aug. 10 , 1992 ) in taxes from which , Garrucho ruled , they were exempt . |
| 18 | The company then paid the duties for three years . |
| 19 | Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’ |
| 20 | In practice , hopelessly unrealistic assumptions and expectations are often built into these ‘ analyses ’ , like payback periods of three years or less , and very high , rule-of-thumb hurdle rates that bear no relation to the real cost of capital to the business or actual rates achievable from external placements . |
| 21 | The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 22 | Second , Bede says that Oswiu established his rule over the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for three years after Penda 's death ( HE III , 24 — on Bede 's chronology 655–8 but perhaps to be emended to 656–9 . |
| 23 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |
| 24 | It will also mean the diversion of two major traffic arteries over temporary roadways for three years . |
| 25 | As foreseen in last year 's Annual Report , competitive quotations were sought , and a contract let , for plant operation and maintenance of the Library 's buildings for three years from 1991–92 . |
| 26 | Have you ever lived in any other places for three years or more since leaving school ? |
| 27 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 28 | Sharon with a B.A. Hons. in Textiles from Galashiels , previously worked for Courtaulds Automotive Textiles for three years . |
| 29 | Details of the tax deal emerge in a confidential letter from Peat Marwick Mitchell , BAe 's tax advisers , showing that the company could offset Rover 's losses for tax purposes for three years without fear of a challenge from tax officials . |
| 30 | ( There were no recurrences after three years in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients . ) |