Sentence examples for prior three years from inspiring English sources

As recently as 2005, Merck's vaccine sales totaled barely $1.1 billion and were essentially flat over the prior three years.

That is tiny compared with the gains of more than 20 percent in each of the prior three years.

"We saw companies finally needing to increase the number of hours worked after cutting hours and workers through the prior three years," said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Banc of America Investment Services in St . Louis

In the last three years it has invested $2 billion in research and development, nearly twice the amount spent in the prior three years, said Yogesh Gupta, the chief technology officer.

If one exercised stock options worth a total of $30 million in the prior three years, then his average annual pay would rise to $20 million, entitling him to a parachute of $59.9 million.

The U.S. Global fund has benefited from a strong market for natural resources stocks, and has seen its expense ratio drop from more than 3percentt over each of the prior three years to 1.53percentthroughgh June, according to the company's Web site.

In 1985, about 20percentt of women were estimated to have had mammograms in the prior two years.

"Looking back, we were unprepared for the complexities," Almon said this summer, reflecting on the prior two years.

In November, the company said that it had overstated profits by nearly $600 million during the prior five years.

Michael Slanker had made more than $500,000 in the prior five years working for what he called "Ensign Inc".

That's up from about 12 to 13 percent in the prior two years.