Example sentences of "three years [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years ago the Government promised all food workers would be trained . |
| 2 | Three years ago the Government recognised the growing problem for people on low and moderate incomes who could no longer get legal aid . |
| 3 | Three years ago the chairman of that company had a salary of £46,000 . |
| 4 | Three years ago the Church also called upon adult education lecturer Dr Norman Todd to run a series of induction courses for bishops . |
| 5 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 6 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |
| 7 | Three years ago the agency was clearly struggling for profitability , coming well down the annual leagaue table for the industry prepared by accountants Spicer and Oppenheim . |
| 8 | Three years later the tally had risen to seventeen countries , between them operating 167 nuclear reactors . |
| 9 | Of course barely three years later the company rescinded and donated the land to the town . |
| 10 | Three years later the poster was reprinted to promote the ‘ second British PWR ’ at Hinkley Point . |
| 11 | In 1895 the Congregational Chapel in Aylesbury agreed to repeat the Lord 's Prayer during Sunday services ; three years later the Church accepted a proposal from its younger members to have a vase of flowers in chapel during services and someone donated a vase . |
| 12 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 13 | Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained . |
| 14 | This old yellow-brown , black-muzzled breed from the Poitou region numbered 728,000 in 1932 , but since 1945 the breed has been declining rapidly and by 1977 there were only 35,000 ; three years later the population had dropped to about 20,000 . |
| 15 | Three years later the surgeon arranged another negative intravenous urogram . |
| 16 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 17 | We were surprised to see this fantastic marble everywhere — on the table tops , on the benches , on the counters — but when we went back there three years later the place was a total mess . |
| 18 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 19 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 20 | TRANSITIONAL RELIEF : Personal community chargepayers in some properties may be entitled to relief in the first three years following the changeover from rates to the community charge . |
| 21 | For John Dunlop , the successful trainer , it was a second win in the juvenile event in three years following the victory of Ashayer in 1987 . |
| 22 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |