Example sentences of "[num ord] three years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 2 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 3 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 4 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 5 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 6 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
| 7 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 8 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 9 | Over the last three years it has killed at least 20 people . |
| 10 | Did you say that ? dead lucky , never of done last three years it 's rained . |
| 11 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 12 | So for the last three years she 's lived alone , existing on income support and other allowances totalling about £80 a week . |
| 13 | Over the last three years she 's developed a hardness that Mother never had . |
| 14 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 15 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 16 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 17 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 18 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 19 | Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain 's transport infrastructure in our history . |
| 20 | Over the next three years we shall continue to upgrade the technology at our refineries to increase the production of motor fuels . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 22 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 23 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 24 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 25 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 26 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |