Example sentences of "for three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 2 | At last Monday 's weekly London tea auction , prices reached their highest for three years . |
| 3 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 4 | After Pontypool took similar action a decade ago , against California Golden Poppies in San Francisco , they were banned from touring for three years . |
| 5 | In the ensuing month he persuaded Edwards to sell , accepting the stipulation that Edwards should retain his £80,000-a-year job as chief executive for three years . |
| 6 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Turning Point said that Mrs Page-Alucard had worked for the the charity for three years and was a very experienced and valuable worker . |
| 8 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 10 | She was reported missing by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , who discovered her body with the help of an official from Turning Point , the drugs advisory charity for which she had worked as a counsellor for three years . |
| 11 | JOE JACKSON Over from New York to give his first London performances for three years . |
| 12 | The first — which will start in April next year , and run for three years — is a new system of transitional protection for those households that stand to lose most from the abolition of domestic rates . |
| 13 | Which might go some small way towards explaining why this weekend 's concerts are Jackson 's first in London for three years . |
| 14 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 15 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 16 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 17 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 18 | Pearce 's switch to British Aerospace was helped by the fact that he had been a non-executive director of the aerospace company for three years prior to the move . |
| 19 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 20 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 21 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 22 | he has served in Berlin for three years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 25 | Ms Mitchell was jailed for three years on Wednesday at Cambridge crown court for possessing and supplying cocaine . |
| 26 | Forget , eager after his long break , was delighted to reach his first semi-final in a Super Series event for three years . |
| 27 | The contract is for three years , with the annual salary thought to be £130,000 . |
| 28 | The contract is for three years , with the annual salary thought to be £130,000 . |
| 29 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 30 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |