Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for three year " in BNC.
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1 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
2 | I had I saved for three years . |
3 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
4 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
5 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
6 | The Woolwich has also launched a 7.99% fixed-rate mortgage , which lasts for three years . |
7 | Movement and Dance and Medau in particular come into the plan from 1983 in an ongoing programme which lasts for three years . |
8 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
9 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
10 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
11 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
12 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
13 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
14 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
15 | He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) . |
16 | He toured for three years from coast to coast . |
17 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
18 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |