Example sentences of "[prep] three year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It was started in January 1991 with 51 pupils , after three years of preparation . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Local environmentalists have fiercely criticized the fact that unsafe conditions still exist at the plant even after three years of clean-up work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Despite Zoila 's everyday contact with English speakers in the USA , her use of English after three years of learning was very poor . |
| 17 | Strawberry plants deteriorate after three years of cropping and need re-siting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the UK the Department of Energy has committed £11 million to geothermal energy for three years of work and by 1986 Britain will have spent £21 million on ‘ hot rocks ’ research . |
| 21 | With three years of system building and integration under its belt , the company intends to focus on software distribution and development for the next two or three years . |
| 22 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 23 | In a report to Wirral policy and resources committee finance director Ian Wood has identified a figure of £27.1m as the likely total write-off from three years of poll tax collection . |
| 24 | In three years of misery at White Hart Lane , the former England Under-21 was cruelly nicknamed ‘ Booby ’ Mimms — and he is still struggling to live down the tag , despite being the Premier League 's least charitable keeper this season . |
| 25 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |
| 26 | In three years of running , I had met neither pedestrian nor vehicle along this track . |
| 27 | Initially the flow out of the labour force and into retirement was concentrated among men within three years of pension age . |
| 28 | However , although only one in twenty of those over the age of 55 reported that they were pleased about the plant closure , those who did so were concentrated almost entirely in the group that was within three years of pension age when the redundancies took place . |
| 29 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 30 | There are , however , reports of heavy natural infections of adult worms and larvae associated with catarrhal and haemorrhagic enteritis , with thickening and oedema of the mucosa , especially in animals of six months to three years of age . |