Example sentences of "three years [unc] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years er three years , five years if he misbehaves , and Clayton , you say , eighteen . |
| 2 | It follows that no firm may be set up which does not have at least one principal of at least three years ' professional standing . |
| 3 | A further important European issue concerns the adoption by the European Council of a Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of at least three years ' professional education and training . |
| 4 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 5 | It recommended ( for both ) increases in salary , and the extension of training courses to three years ' full-time study . |
| 6 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 7 | For those on non-residential courses three years ' part-time training is normally demanded . |
| 8 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 9 | The vicar added that unless the new church was allowed three years ' hard work would have been wasted . |
| 10 | The court of military justice on May 5 confirmed the sentence of three years ' hard labour first passed in absentia in July 1983 against Gen. Saadeddine al-Shazli , the army chief of staff during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 . |
| 11 | After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager . |
| 12 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend recall that until the Criminal Justice Act 1988 amended the law , the penalty for taking away a vehicle without consent was up to three years ' custodial sentence ? |
| 14 | Although the Police Federation welcomes the Bill , it would prefer the basic offence of taking away without consent possibly to incur the same penalty as was available until 1988 , of up to three years ' custodial sentence . |