Example sentences of "[prep] three years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years without success D'Arcy feared that the venture would fail . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 5 | Suchocka declared : " After three years of reforms , we are at a turning point . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It was started in January 1991 with 51 pupils , after three years of preparation . |
| 9 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 10 | Local environmentalists have fiercely criticized the fact that unsafe conditions still exist at the plant even after three years of clean-up work . |
| 11 | After three years of deliberation , the " Lewis Report " merely recommended more research , leaving it to the enterprise of individual head teachers and their staff to make progress in this field . |
| 12 | After three years of property slump in the home counties it has never been easier to leap over the Watford Gap by moving from the north to the south . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The contrast between her pre-accident state of health and quality of life and the plaintiff 's present position after three years of in-patient treatment and more than three years of devoted care at home from her parents is stock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | Strawberry plants deteriorate after three years of cropping and need re-siting . |
| 22 | Investors who register with the specially established share shops or the share information office are to be offered a discount of 10p on each of the second and third instalments on allocations of up to 1,000 shares , or a one-for-15 share bonus after three years on allocations of up to 1,500 shares . |
| 23 | After three years with Addisons , a proposed management buyout , for which Mr Steeds was to become finance director , fell through with the October 1987 crash . |
| 24 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 25 | In September , after three years in New Zealand , I had the opportunity to spend one month back in Britain and was able to review the changes I had heard previewed in March 1989 . |
| 26 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 27 | One died seven years later of disseminated malignancy ; one after three years from alcoholism , another after one year from colonic carcinoma . |
| 28 | John and Mary ( the two experimenters ) show a child of three years of age a red box and a blue box and a pound coin . |
| 29 | The Law Society requires newly qualified solicitors to undertake approved CPD for a period of three years on pain of withdrawal of their practising certificate . |
| 30 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |