Example sentences of "in the three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 2 | In the three years from 1984 to 1986 there were some 229 such cases , of which almost half were dealt with by a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983 ( with or without restrictions ) . |
| 3 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 4 | In the three years covered by the book he loses his virginity , his father and , briefly , his mind . |
| 5 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
| 6 | In the three years after his retirement , Britain chalked up no fewer than four prime ministers until Earl Grey managed to fill his shoes . |
| 7 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 8 | In the three years between its foundation in 1965 and the summer of 1968 the Londonderry branch of the NILP underwent a significant swing to the left . |
| 9 | Market research showed that only 15 per cent of US adults had made a ‘ foreign ’ trip in the three years prior to 1989 — and that included trips to Hawaii and Alaska . |
| 10 | Callaghan in the three years between April 1976 and April 1979 commissioned about 160 ad hoc committees , a similar growth rate to Attlee 's . |
| 11 | In the three years that followed , he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment , and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know . |
| 12 | In the three years between 1983 and 1986 , UDG allocations of £148 million was matched by ultimate expenditure of less than £50 million . |
| 13 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 14 | John Doxsie , head of Staley 's sweetener division , says that in the three years since its launch , Krystar has accounted for 100 million lb of the annual five billion lb market for all sweeteners . |
| 15 | In the three years that followed , the Danzig Nazis became better at governing themselves and at developing strategies to exploit the increasing economic difficulties of the Free City . |
| 16 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 17 | In the three years since he 'd last seen her she 'd grown it halfway down her back . |
| 18 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 19 | Euromoney ranked Singapore 's economic performance as the world 's second best after Taiwan in the three years to 1992 , based on the views of 34 economists from leading banks . |
| 20 | Accordingly , three modules were drawn up offering a progression in the three years of the course from Information Sources through Information Systems to Information Management . |
| 21 | However , we collected detailed information on the employment and labour market histories of respondents in the three years between redundancy and interview , and previous research indicates that such information can be collected reliably for such relatively short periods ( Walker 1982a ) . |
| 22 | In the three years after the murder of Zhang Zuolin Japanese — Chinese tension in Manchuria reached new heights as radical young officers from the Guandong Army urged Japanese occupation of the area . |
| 23 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 24 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 25 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 26 | In the three years from 1983/4 to 1986/7 , this situation changed and the Conservative government began to make the RAWP targets ‘ bite ’ . |
| 27 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 28 | It may be this which signals the high-water mark of Oswiu 's intervention in Pictland , analogous to his activities in Mercia in the three years after Penda 's death , and it does not imply an obvious community of interest between Oswiu and the sons of Donuel . |
| 29 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 30 | The total number inoculated by him , his assistants , and partners in the three years 1764–6 amounted to almost 20,000 without , it was claimed , a single death directly attributable to the treatment . |