Example sentences of "three years [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
2 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
3 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
4 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
5 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |
6 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
7 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
8 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
9 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
10 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
11 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
12 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
13 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
14 | ‘ In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies . |
15 | In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant . |
16 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
17 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
18 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
19 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
20 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
21 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
22 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
23 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
24 | And this last two or three years I 've s I 've become to realize that how important acting and performing is to me , and h how much more there is to do in it . |
25 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
26 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
27 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
28 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
29 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
30 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |