Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] 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 rules for this are complicated , but you can claim various reliefs , so you may have to pay a little or nothing , particularly if you sell within three years . |
| 7 | Philip brought his young bride Ann Escourt to his ‘ new mansion ’ , as a neighbour described it , but she died within three years at the age of twenty-four and is buried here in the churchyard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 10 | In it he proposes the closure of at least one college at year that they reopen after three years and that they will not be allowed to employ anyone who 's previously taught at an Oxbridge university . |
| 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 | Daniels , the lorry driver , has already appealed successfully against his sentence , having it reduced by three years , but his appeal against conviction was turned down . |
| 15 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 16 | The Middlesbrough businessman cited work commitments and the need for a clean break as his main reasons for deciding to call it quits after three years at the helm . |
| 17 | He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) . |
| 18 | He toured for three years from coast to coast . |
| 19 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 20 | He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |