Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 2 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 3 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | SECOND division BEDFORD have appointed former Bristol and England flanker Mike Rafter as their new coach after parting company with New Zealander Ian Snook , coach for the past three years , Snook is now expected to join Old Wesley in Dublin . |
| 5 | RICHIE DIXON , the Scotland B coach for the past three seasons , has been promoted to helping to coach the senior team . |
| 6 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 8 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 9 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 10 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 11 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 12 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 13 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 14 | George and Tony Sabin have been keeping the streets of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds clean for the past three years . |
| 15 | In the report of Souquet et al , when endosonography was considered normal , no recurrence was observed for the following three months , but a recurrence was usually confirmed immediately or within three months when endosonography indicated infiltration by tumour . |
| 16 | Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places . |
| 17 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |