Example sentences of "[adj] for three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The First Deputy Chair of the Supreme Council , Andrejs Krastins , claimed in an Interior Ministry statement reported on May 5 that accusations in the Atmoda-Atpute newspaper that he had been recruited into the KGB in 1980 for three years were an attempt to compromise the resolution . |
| 2 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 3 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 4 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 5 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 6 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 7 | A former fish restaurant in Darlington town centre could be turned into a pub and office complex after standing empty for three years . |
| 8 | The clerkship was in fact virtually unpaid for three years , during which the juniors were paid only £20 , and had to live in London in the style of gentlemen . |
| 9 | The funding will only be visible for three years , as it gradually merges into the personal social services element of the revenue support grant . |
| 10 | A sum of Rs200 would be paid monthly for three years to as many as 500,000 people currently claiming compensation . |
| 11 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |
| 12 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 13 | Stagnant for three years , property prices are beginning to move . |
| 14 | Kate and Paul reach a watershed : married for three years new home with two floors and a small back garden , Kate is thirty-one , has become critically aware of the Biological Clock . |
| 15 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 16 | In 1279–80 Canterbury province granted a fifteenth for three years , and York province a tenth for two years , towards the Welsh campaign and the truce with France , for both of which Archbishop Pecham showed enthusiasm . |
| 17 | The allowance is paid in full for three years and is then reduced progressively by 12½ per cent per annum of the original difference over the subsequent seven years . |
| 18 | At last Monday 's weekly London tea auction , prices reached their highest for three years . |
| 19 | The yield 's the highest for three years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My win in the Mercedes German Masters was my first for three years , ’ he said at home in Largs where he finds peace and solace with son Daniel and Suzanne . |
| 21 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 22 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 23 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 24 | Active for three years , they too penetrated into the heart of England , capturing Oxford late in 1009 , Thetford , Cambridge and Northampton in 1010 , and Canterbury in 1011 . |
| 25 | The funding is now secure for three years . |
| 26 | An entrance scholarship of £200 per annum tenable for three years is awarded each year on the basis of a selection examination ; the Mackey Entrance Scholarship for pianists is open for award every third or fourth year at the value of £200 per annum for three years , as is the James Smart Entrance Scholarship for organists . |
| 27 | C Pounds 350,000 for three years ; 5 . |
| 28 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |