Example sentences of "three year [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF had in April approved for Zambia a rights accumulation programme [ see also p. 38433 ] for up to a maximum of SDR836,900,000 ( US$1,138 million ) over three years to end-March 1994 . |
| 2 | A 10 per cent annual coupon bond is trading at par with three years to maturity , so , , T = 3 years . |
| 3 | A 10 per cent annual coupon bond is trading at par with three years to maturity . |
| 4 | A bond with a coupon of 12 per cent and three years to maturity is trading at 102–08 . |
| 5 | The teaching profession has recently made a beginning in this direction , allowing one salary increment for each three years of child rearing . |
| 6 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 8 | Once , this had been an expanse of perfect , squared masonry , but three years of siege and three months of heavy bombardment had produced enough gouges and bruising to offer some kind of a foothold . |
| 9 | Mark Twain 's Innocents Abroad , an account of his travels in Europe and the Near East , published in 1869 , sold about 125,000 copies within the first three years of publication . |
| 10 | May I make it plain , as my Department has done consistently over the past three years of consideration of the Bill in the House , that this is indeed a mammoth project , that the appraisals of such a project inevitably change over time as the project changes in costs and revenue . |
| 11 | This equipped the students to teach up to standard 6 , an extra three years of schooling . |
| 12 | In three years of misery at White Hart Lane , the former England Under-21 was cruelly nicknamed ‘ Booby ’ Mimms — and he is still struggling to live down the tag , despite being the Premier League 's least charitable keeper this season . |
| 13 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 14 | The Directive covers some 80 professions regulated in some way by the state , or by chartered professional associations and which demand at least three years of education at university or equivalent level . |
| 15 | Overshadowing December 1992 were three years of recession ; unemployment , and the fear of unemployment , as the numbers edged towards three million ; and the terrorist activities of the IRA , which succeeded in keeping many people out of city centres . |
| 16 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | In the first three years of trading , the haulier should be careful not to make any chargeable gains for tax purposes . |
| 18 | The future is too precious , at least the three years of European and world championships ending in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 , his fifth Games . |
| 19 | Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent . |
| 20 | The Department of Trade and Industry gave three years of core programme funding to it and makes annual grants to the NDC and other regional development agencies to undertake our important and beneficial inward investment promotional work . |
| 21 | Three years of bloodshed and misery could not be justified if the outcome were a return to the pre-Republican status quo . |
| 22 | Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 23 | The couple 's love even endured three years of separation as Courtney worked in the Gulf to raise the money to buy their home in Cricklewood , north London . |
| 24 | ‘ Thalidomide was proved by three years of animal tests , ’ she said , ‘ and these were confirmed in every country of its use except for Turkey . |
| 25 | None of these figures is very different from the earlier stages of weathering , and it would seem that even after more than three years of exposure to weathering , the damage and/or loss of bone is still very small . |
| 26 | When year after year the General Nursing Council failed one-third of candidates taking SRN examinations after three years of preparation , few questioned the proportion ( Nursing Times , 1972 ) . |
| 27 | It was started in January 1991 with 51 pupils , after three years of preparation . |
| 28 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 29 | In the UK the Department of Energy has committed £11 million to geothermal energy for three years of work and by 1986 Britain will have spent £21 million on ‘ hot rocks ’ research . |
| 30 | As co-founder , it was , for me , the culmination of ‘ a life time 's dream ’ , nearly three years of work and over thirty years experience developing coaching programmes for juniors and seniors of all levels through Stonebridge Tennis and The Stonebridge Academy . |