Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 2 | Yet where the two do not like one another or the chemistry is wrong , the relationship will remain distant for the entire three years . |
| 3 | ‘ Everybody is enthusiastic about a house for the first three years . |
| 4 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 5 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 6 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 7 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 8 | For the first three years , consultants monitored the zones ( for example , Tym and Partners , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | The Department of Industry will pay for the first three years , but after that expects FABMS to pay for itself . |
| 10 | A typical use of one field would be as follows : for the first three years after conversion the field would be pasture , then three years of arable crops would be grown on it , such as wheat , barley and spring beans , then complete the rotation by turning the land over to pasture again . |
| 11 | Results for the first three years of the experiment show that serious injury accidents fell by two-thirds and light injury accidents by one third . |
| 12 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 13 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 14 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 15 | Similar deals are available on the remaining two- and three-bedroom properties , but Lovell is also offering free mortgage protection insurance for the first three years , which will pay up to £1,000 per month if the buyer is made redundant . |
| 16 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 17 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 18 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 19 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 20 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 21 | The scheme has been welcomed by the National Farmers Union and countryside campaigners , both of whom , however , criticized as insufficient the £3.5 million available for the first three years . |
| 22 | Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies . |
| 23 | The protection for losing authorities ( for the following three years ) will be paid for by the Exchequer , ’ Mr Hunt said , answering a demand for central funding repeated in the debate . |
| 24 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 25 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He then rose rapidly to become chief conductor at La Scala , Milan , and later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and , for the past three years , of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 28 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 29 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |