Example sentences of "three years [unc] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 2 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 3 | Both Campbell and the AMA 's Guy Robertson believe the government will stick to the next three years ' funding pledges . |
| 4 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 5 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 6 | New mothers in Czechoslovakia can look forward to three years ' maternity leave and the health service has a lot more going for it than ours , she says . |
| 7 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
| 8 | So , if you buy a yearling fish it will have consumed three years ' pellet rations and , hopefully , survived three merry-go-rounds of hazards . |