Example sentences of "three [noun] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are by far the most successful of the three clubs in recent years , Dundee United are newcomers to Tayside tension . |
| 2 | Mr Ferguson , who has now guided United to three trophies in 5½ years since taking over from Ron Atkinson , thought United missed Robson less than Nottingham Forest missed Stuart Pearce . |
| 3 | It was a bitter blow for Allcock , Britain 's outstanding bowler in the past decade , for he has now reached this final three times in four years , only to finish runner-up in each . |
| 4 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 5 | It also should not be forgotten that Hastings has toured New Zealand three times in recent years — for the World Cup in 1987 , with Scotland in 1990 and the World XV last year — an experience which Carling can not match . |
| 6 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 7 | It has been estimated that mild , self managed episodes may occur about twice weekly ; severe episodes without unconsciousness but requiring help from another person twice yearly ; and episodes of unconsciousness three times in 40 years . |
| 8 | Lynch successfully defended the world flyweight title three times in three years against worthy contenders , an achievement unsurpassed by British boxers before . |
| 9 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 10 | Any one application must not exceed £1,000 and a maximum of three applications in three years can be made . |
| 11 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 12 | ‘ Three injuries in three years — I must be the unluckiest policewoman , ’ she said . |