Example sentences of "in the [num ord] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures in the first three years of the Long-Term Costing are detailed and relatively firm because they are fixed by the Public Expenditure Survey Committee each year — hence they are referred to in Whitehall jargon as the PESC years . |
| 2 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 3 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 4 | For instance , a man of 29 who paid £50 a month into a 25-year endowment , would fork out £1,800 in the first three years . |
| 5 | In the first three years of trading , the haulier should be careful not to make any chargeable gains for tax purposes . |
| 6 | It is hoped the Forum will broker an average of £1m new projects a year in the first three years and will seek to raise the profile of the industry through international events and through press coverage . |
| 7 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 8 | But , even so , thanks in part to the new legislation , in part to the administrative machinery of the Court of Wards , and in part to the provision that monastic lands be sold as tenancies-in-chief , the income from feudal dues rose from £4,434 in 1542 to an average of £7,700 per annum in the first three years of Edward VI . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The lease was to run for 21 years yielding a Royalty of one ninth in the first three years ; an eighth during the next three , and a seventh part or dish for the remainder of the term . |
| 11 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 12 | The CASE projects aim at least to double this proportion in the first three years of secondary schooling by developing new teaching skills in science teachers . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the researchers aim to discover what managerial and organisational problems the sample experienced in the first three years of their firm 's existence , how the role of owner/manager has influenced family life and the attitude of the sample towards the growth and development of their organisations . |
| 14 | Viktor Gerashchenko , chairman of USSR Gosbank ( the Soviet central bank ) , called upon the EBRD to lift its restrictions on Soviet borrowing , which stipulated that the total volume of Soviet credits could not exceed its paid-in capital in the first three years . |
| 15 | In the first three years , teaching is provided at introductory , intermediate , and advanced levels across the breadth of the discipline social , developmental , biological , comparative , and applied psychology , plus the psychology of perception , action , cognition and individual differences . |
| 16 | Entry to the final two years of this course is dependent on performance in the first three years . |
| 17 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
| 18 | Something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 19 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 20 | Dr Ger Van Vliet , scientific director of the Botanical Gardens in Lieden , said his tasks in the next three years would be to make customs officials more aware of endangered plants , reducing the illegal trade , and help countries supplying wild plants to sell correctly propagated specimens . |
| 21 | Walker , who won the Heisman Trophy for the best college player and is regarded as one of the leading rushers in the NFL , was exchanged for Darrin Nelson ( running back ) , Issiac Holt ( defensive back ) , David Howard and Jesse Solomon ( both linebackers ) and Alex Stewart ( defensive end ) plus a first-round and up to six other draft picks in the next three years . |
| 22 | Support for students will rise by £134 million in the next three years , allowing for an increase of 6,000 students next year and 8,000 in 1991-92 . |
| 23 | Capital spending for water and sewage services would rise by more than £100 million in the next three years . |
| 24 | In the next three years , 300 more local radio stations could be set up , catering for local tastes , to ‘ broaden the range of programmes available ’ . |
| 25 | In the next three years , 300 more local radio stations will be able to set up — but franchise applicants must cater for local tastes and ‘ broaden the range of programmes available ’ . |
| 26 | Tax-payers ' backing for the loss-making provincial operation , now £400 million a year , will be cut by 25 per cent in the next three years , according to Mr Parkinson . |
| 27 | DIRECT government grants for the railways are to be slashed by 33 per cent to £345million , after adjustment for inflation , in the next three years . |
| 28 | My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years . |
| 29 | They continued to rise in the next three years , and in 1984–5. they were nearly equal to the current rate of increase of the cost of living . |
| 30 | Owing to his illness he was able to study for only one term in the next three years , although he did put his convalescence to good use , adding fluency in French , German and Italian to his other accomplishments , and attending lectures of the French physicist Dominique Arago at the Sorbonne . |