Example sentences of "[prep] three years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 2 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 3 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 4 | My husband was banned for three years after he 'd killed me . ’ |
| 5 | On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 6 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 7 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 8 | Well , it 's been going in Oxford now for three years and it 's for people with disability and able bodied people , and with the current production we have which is being produced by Paul Newham , the people there have er suffered with M S and are visually impaired and er you know , various disabilities like that , plus able bodied people . |
| 9 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 10 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 11 | And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all . |
| 12 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 14 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 15 | THE Welsh Rugby Union has banned Neath from touring abroad for three years because they walked off the pitch in a pre-season friendly in France last August . |
| 16 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 17 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 18 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |
| 20 | Middle-class families get their investment back in two to three years if they cook half their lunch every day in the cooker . |