In China the company opened a Jollibee in Xiamen in 1998 but had to close it three years later.
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Whitbread bought the brewery in 1965, but closed it three years later.
In 2002 New York University was the first private university to recognise a PhD teachers' union, but stopped negotiating with it three years later.
West Nile virus arrived in America in 1999 and made it to California three years later.
The ever adaptable Ding founded NetEase as a software company in 1997 when that area was hot, listed it on Nasdaq three years later as an Internet portal during the dot-com boom, and then, after weathering an accounting scandal, tacked toward gaming.
NetWorth ultimately sold out in November 1995 to Compaq Computer, which shut it down less than three years later.
Three years later it isolated the BRCA1 gene, a segment of DNA that marks 600, 000 American women with a greater than one-in-two chance of developing breast cancer.
"Three years later it was sold to a European banker, and kept in France, locked away in a safe deposit box, where fortunately it remained undiscovered during World War II, " the auction house said.
It would later take us three years to find a buyer for the finished home.
No matter that when Windows 1.0 did finally appear, three years later, it was an ugly dud.
Three years later, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Three years later, it took a drubbing at the 2004 European championships.
Three years later, it was a very different England team who triumphed at the same Bridgetown ground to lift their first global trophy, albeit in the Twenty20 format.
It was the housing market that helped pull the US economy into the black hole it has yet to escape from nearly three years later.
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Details on how the scheme will work will be developed by Public Health Wales and it will be introduced over three years, starting later this year.
The event is famously known for helping to boost Twitter in 2007 and Foursquare three years later, giving it a rep as a launching pad for new digital tools.
It was losing money at the time but Erick saw it as an opportunity, turning it profitable in three years, and then Erick later added the Chinese-language newspaer Sin Chew and others such as Golf Digest Indonesia.
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On the day the lease expired, three years later, Blundy closed it.
We're there now three and a half years later and it's still the Americans that are - and the coalition forces that are providing the primary law enforcement.
Unable to get the value the company needed, Ghandour, in partnership with Abraaj Capital, bought back the company in 2002 and three years later listed on the Dubai Stock Exchange where it remains today.
The UK had been due to set a date for phasing out all its imperial measurements within three years, but the European Commission will announce later it is leaving all future decisions to the British government.
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Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after the first Chechen war, leaving it de-facto independent and largely lawless, but then rolled back three years later following apartment building explosions in Moscow and other cities blamed on the rebels.
Now more than three years later, as we sift through the aftermath, it is clear to me that instead of potentially derailing the recovery, as we hear so much about, higher interest rates will be the key to success.
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Three years later war broke out and he was stuck with soldiering until it ended in 1945.
It included stock in the airline, pay raises, job protections and work rules that three years later would have brought American pilots to a contract indexed to Delta, United and US Airways contracts.
Three weeks later, an aerosol cloud had encircled the earth, and it remained for nearly two years.
The IRS normally has just three years after a return is due or filed, whichever is later, to audit it.
At least the incremental lengthening of the season over the years has pushed the Super Bowl into early February, about three weeks later than it used to be played.
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