Example sentences of "for the [adj] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet where the two do not like one another or the chemistry is wrong , the relationship will remain distant for the entire three years . |
| 2 | Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies . |
| 3 | The protection for losing authorities ( for the following three years ) will be paid for by the Exchequer , ’ Mr Hunt said , answering a demand for central funding repeated in the debate . |
| 4 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 5 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 6 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 7 | He then rose rapidly to become chief conductor at La Scala , Milan , and later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and , for the past three years , of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 8 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 9 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 11 | Thomson , singles winner for the past three years , is not at Melton Mowbray in the Manchester Unity Championships to thwart Allcock this year — he is playing in Australia — but there were others . |
| 12 | The Birmingham extravaganza was organised by the Department of Education and Science , which has run a scheme called the Microelectronics Education Programme ( MEP ) for the past three years . |
| 13 | Nor was anything said about the fact that federal support of civilian R&D has been at a ground-losing $14 000 million for the past three years — down by $3000 million since Reagan took office . |
| 14 | In addition Fujitsu has created an average of five new software subsidiaries annually for the past three years . |
| 15 | Q I 've been having my hair permed every four months for the past three years . |
| 16 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 17 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 18 | SECOND division BEDFORD have appointed former Bristol and England flanker Mike Rafter as their new coach after parting company with New Zealander Ian Snook , coach for the past three years , Snook is now expected to join Old Wesley in Dublin . |
| 19 | The treble rugby league champions , League winners for the past three years , are planning to rearrange a home match with Bradford Northern for February 7 — and provide a team for the World Sevens in Sydney at the same time . |
| 20 | Financial information relating to Cheshire Restaurants Ltd for the past three years is provided below , together with preliminary papers relating to the two proposals . |
| 21 | Second seed Amanda Grunfeld , from Manchester , joined Durie in the last 16 with a 6–1 , 6–4 victory over Banbury 's Claire Spencer , while Devon 's third-seeded Sara Gomer , runner-up for the past three years , crushed Fulham 's Claire Spencer 6–4 , 6–2 . |
| 22 | By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister . |
| 23 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 24 | Enthusiasts Julian Mitchell and Stephen Arnold have been busy restoring Mk V BL370 near Oxford for the past three years , after recovering the hulk . |
| 25 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 26 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 27 | The Thurston Upper School pupil is a member of the Stowmarket Kyokushinkai Club and has only taken part in the sport for the past three years , progressing from third to runner-up to national champion at his last championships as a junior . |
| 28 | For the past three years every general practitioner in Britain has been forced to waste professional time and scarce resources on unproved and possibly harmful procedures . |
| 29 | For the past three years , WACC has been supporting Puskat 's annual series of three two-week media workshops . |
| 30 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |