Example sentences of "three year and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years and approximately £2m of research and development , SeaChange 4 began shipping on March 31 . |
| 2 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 3 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 4 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 5 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 6 | I believe the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first successful explorer to transit the North West Passage with a 50 tonne fishing boat , taking three years and finally reaching the Pacific in 1906 . |
| 7 | He stuck this out for three years and finally qualified as an electrician in his own right . |
| 8 | The marriage had been good , he said , for two or three years and then they drifted towards the rocks until they were agreed on only one thing , their incompatibility . |
| 9 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 10 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 11 | Er where I did about three years and then moved to Southwell . |
| 12 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 15 | This Agreement commences on [ ] and will continue for a fixed period of three years and thereafter will continue from year to year unless terminated by at least sixty days ' written notice by either party to the other , such notice to expire on any anniversary date of the commencement of this Agreement falling after the expiry of the fixed period aforesaid . |
| 16 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |