Example sentences of "three years and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 2 | And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Three years and we got divorced . |
| 4 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 5 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 6 | about three years and it has bled a couple of times . |
| 7 | ‘ But he has kept goal exceptionally well , not only this season but for two or three years and it would be unwise for me not to look at him . ’ |
| 8 | Well , it 's been going in Oxford now for three years and it 's for people with disability and able bodied people , and with the current production we have which is being produced by Paul Newham , the people there have er suffered with M S and are visually impaired and er you know , various disabilities like that , plus able bodied people . |
| 9 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 10 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 12 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 13 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 15 | This has been the most fastest growing part of the holiday taking in this country over the past two or three years and I 'm hoping it will continue and so does our industry — in other words the hotels and accommodation , the tourist attractions — all are hoping , you know , that people are going to continue to do this erm and I think this may apply to certain sectors of the community erm and we just hope that that will grow . |
| 16 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've known him three years and he was always flush . |
| 18 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 19 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 20 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 21 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 22 | And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all . |
| 23 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |