Example sentences of "[prep] three year [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years without success D'Arcy feared that the venture would fail . |
| 2 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 4 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 5 | When year after year the General Nursing Council failed one-third of candidates taking SRN examinations after three years of preparation , few questioned the proportion ( Nursing Times , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | It was started in January 1991 with 51 pupils , after three years of preparation . |
| 7 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | Local environmentalists have fiercely criticized the fact that unsafe conditions still exist at the plant even after three years of clean-up work . |
| 9 | After three years of deliberation , the " Lewis Report " merely recommended more research , leaving it to the enterprise of individual head teachers and their staff to make progress in this field . |
| 10 | After three years of property slump in the home counties it has never been easier to leap over the Watford Gap by moving from the north to the south . |
| 11 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 12 | The contrast between her pre-accident state of health and quality of life and the plaintiff 's present position after three years of in-patient treatment and more than three years of devoted care at home from her parents is stock . |
| 13 | After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications . |
| 14 | The US government has long argued forcefully that GATT free trade rules should apply to all services ; and in 1985 , after three years of negotiation , the US position was incorporated nearly intact into OECD 's Declaration on Transborder Data Flows . |
| 15 | After three years of restoration , Veronese 's ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ is the centre of a small exhibition , until 9 November , of the discoveries made by the restorers in the course of their work . |
| 16 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 17 | Despite Zoila 's everyday contact with English speakers in the USA , her use of English after three years of learning was very poor . |
| 18 | Strawberry plants deteriorate after three years of cropping and need re-siting . |
| 19 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 20 | One died seven years later of disseminated malignancy ; one after three years from alcoholism , another after one year from colonic carcinoma . |
| 21 | John and Mary ( the two experimenters ) show a child of three years of age a red box and a blue box and a pound coin . |
| 22 | The Law Society requires newly qualified solicitors to undertake approved CPD for a period of three years on pain of withdrawal of their practising certificate . |
| 23 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 24 | NEAVE WAS IN MI9 DURING THREE YEARS OF WORLD WAR II AND MAINTAINED CONTACT WITH THE SECRET SERVICES UNTIL ASSASSINATED BY TERRORISTS ON THE EVE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION OF MAY 1979 . |
| 25 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 26 | In announcing the appointment Bush described Card , a former state legislator in Massachusetts , as " a friend of many years " , who had served in Bush 's campaign teams in the presidential elections of 1980 and 1988 , had then served for three years as deputy Chief of Staff to the controversial John Sununu , but had maintained a reputation for managerial efficiency and diplomacy . |
| 27 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 28 | He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday . |
| 29 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 30 | This will be a fixed-term , non-renewable appointment for three years on Research Support scale IB ( 12,828 — 17,379 ) . |