Example sentences of "three years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 2 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 3 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 4 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 5 | So after less than three years it was removed to Cleveland Lodge in Great Ayton which was the home of John Pease . |
| 6 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 9 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 10 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 11 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |