Example sentences of "[prep] three year [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each community was organised independently , with membership by initiation into secret rites , and then after three years full membership being conferred . |
| 2 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 3 | Kate and Paul reach a watershed : married for three years new home with two floors and a small back garden , Kate is thirty-one , has become critically aware of the Biological Clock . |
| 4 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 5 | Bankruptcy — Jurisdiction — Carrying on business — Debtor selling business and leaving United Kingdom more than three years before presentation of petition — No debts outstanding save for income tax liability — Whether debtor ‘ carried on business ’ within three years preceding petition — Jurisdiction to make bankruptcy order — Insolvency Act 1986 ( c. 45 ) , s. 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) |
| 6 | A company may lose its ability to carry forward surplus ACT if there is a change of ownership of the company that is accompanied by a major change in the nature of the trade or business within three years either side of the change in ownership , or a substantial revival of the trade or business ( s 245 ) . |
| 7 | However well you treat them , after two to three years these foliage begonias lose their compact appearance and look straggly . |
| 8 | Section 137 of the 1984 Act provides that " every lessee to whom there is delivered any summons issued from a county court for the recovery of land held by him … shall forthwith give notice to his lessor … if a lessee fails to give notice he shall be liable to forfeit to the person of whom he hold the land an amount equal to three years improved rent of the land " . |