Example sentences of "[prep] three year in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 2 | For only the second time in the 103-year history of the Army Cup , a unit has won the coveted trophy for three years in succession . |
| 3 | Parliament showed its power further in the mid-1980s by delaying the budget for three years in succession . |
| 4 | Families have also suffered as a consequence of the freezing of child benefit for three years in succession and the greater emphasis being placed upon means-tested family credit . |
| 5 | above general price increases for three years in succession . |
| 6 | ‘ The Singing Kettle ’ has opened its lid to thousands of children in Germany , USA , Canada , Ireland , Australia and Hong Kong as well as in theatres throughout Britain including two visits to the South Bank in London and , for three years in succession , they appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , Stratford . |
| 7 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 8 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 9 | The agent which causes the scrapie disease in goats and sheep can survive for up to three years in soil , say researchers at Maryland University . |
| 10 | That , however , did not impress Judge Gabriel Hutton , who , at the end of the 45-minute hearing , sentenced Wright to three years in jail . |
| 11 | Jilted Griffin , who faces up to three years in jail , was arrested after tracking Lynn Oddo to a flat in California . |
| 12 | Judge William Crawford sentenced Summersgill , of Edgeworth Court , Hemlington , Middlesbrough , to three years in jail . |
| 13 | IVAN Boesky , the former Wall Street takeover speculator sentenced to three years in prison for insider trading , has been released from his California jail and is living within commuting distance of Wall Street , looking for a new job . |
| 14 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 15 | Former congressman Robert Garcia was sentenced to three years in prison on June 16 , having been convicted in October 1991 on one count of extortion in connection with the Wedtech scandal . |