Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] three years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | These shares may then be cancelled unless they are resold within three years from their acquisition . |
| 3 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 4 | Is this enough , particularly in the case of the operated transsexual , remembering that proceedings for a decree of nullity must now be instituted within three years of the date of the marriage ? |
| 5 | For example , if the current price is 103 , the bond is not likely to be called until three years before maturity . |
| 6 | Proceedings must be commenced within three years of when the injury or damage occurred or , if the injury , etc. , was not discovered until later , within three years of when the plaintiff became aware of the injury or damage . |
| 7 | ‘ As indicated in the November 1983 statement , the setting of the first review date under these arrangements will enable a life sentence prisoner to be released within three years of that date if the Parole Board so recommends , subject to the policy announced in reply to a question by the then Rt . |
| 8 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 9 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 10 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 11 | SIX members of a North-East car theft gang have each been jailed for three years after an 18-month undercover police operation . |
| 12 | The factory is sold after three years for 50,000 . |
| 13 | Better still , these amounts are subtracted from a mortgage rate which is fixed for three years at 13.99% ( APR 15.0% ) . |
| 14 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 15 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 16 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 17 | A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications . |
| 18 | He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday . |
| 19 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 20 | He was sentenced to three years for manslaughter and perverting the course of justice . |
| 21 | Former congressman Robert Garcia was sentenced to three years in prison on June 16 , having been convicted in October 1991 on one count of extortion in connection with the Wedtech scandal . |
| 22 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 23 | ‘ Thalidomide was proved by three years of animal tests , ’ she said , ‘ and these were confirmed in every country of its use except for Turkey . |
| 24 | Madonna was followed for three years by a 19-stone man who camped outside her New York flat and Julia Roberts was forced to employ an armed guard after a man began trying to visit her home . |
| 25 | … I am prepared to hold , therefore , that the ‘ act , neglect or default giving rise to the action ’ was the doing of damage to the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendants : and inasmuch as the action was commenced within three years from the date when the damage was done , it is not barred by the statute . |
| 26 | It had first been established in 1979 , and was renewed for three years in 1989. * Evidence has emerged of continued " pirate whaling " in the south Atlantic . |
| 27 | Ms Mitchell was jailed for three years on Wednesday at Cambridge crown court for possessing and supplying cocaine . |
| 28 | Yesterday , Simpson , 23 , of Boscombe Gardens , Hemlington , Middlesbrough , was jailed for three years at Teesside Crown Court after admitting robbery . |
| 29 | AN unemployed gardener , Colin Edmiston , 51 , of Inchcolm Court , Edinburgh , was jailed for three years at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday when he admitted breaking into four houses in Dalgety Bay , Fife , and stealing goods to the value of more than £34,000 . |
| 30 | A FORMER tyre depot manager involved in drug dealing was jailed for three years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |