Example sentences of "in [adv] three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 2 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 3 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 4 | How to lose £1.3bn in just three years |
| 5 | In just three years fish and fishkeeping have taken over reader JAY CHANDLER 'S life . |
| 6 | There had been ‘ 2 deaths at the 1,000-bed hospital in just three years . |
| 7 | At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years . |
| 8 | PEKING — Having dumped two heirs apparent in under three years , Deng Xiaoping yesterday moved to buttress the shaky position of yet another set of hand-picked successors by announcing that they , not he , were now running China . |
| 9 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 10 | For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name . |
| 11 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 12 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 13 | The cost of upgrading each workstation to CD-Rom is around £300 , a figure that should be paid back in around three years . |
| 14 | The plunge has wiped £1,000 billion off share values in barely three years . |