Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They allow their secretaries to hoard three years supply of sticky tape their personnel people to stock six years ' supply of appraisal forms ( when most managers would do better with blank sheets ) and their engineers to " buffer out " with an indefinite supply of obsolete parts . |
| 2 | My major intervention in medical matters came three years after my Rhodesian episode . |
| 3 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 4 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 5 | A STRONG attack has been made on ministers for failing to deliver on promises made three years ago to build a new dental hospital in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 7 | His fishkeeping exploits started three years ago , when his wife , Jill , presented him with an aquarium as a present . |
| 8 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 9 | She sighed the sort of sigh that drama teachers spend three years eradicating from their students . |
| 10 | In late March reports described fighting in the Pietermaritzburg ( Natal ) townships as some of the worst in the region since clashes began three years previously [ see pp. 36069-70 ; 36911 ] between pro-ANC militants and supporters of the ( mainly Zulu ) Inkatha movement led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 11 | As the metropolitan police complained three years later , the whole question of dealing with prostitutes was fraught with problems . |
| 12 | In most cases , Ordinary or General degrees require three years of study and honours degrees require four years of study . |
| 13 | He has acquired the Cork Street premises vacated three years ago by Bernard Jacobson . |
| 14 | In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients . |