Turns out I was — I could in fact get a three-bed flat.

然后我发现那还真是玩笑话，事实上我能租到三居室。

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Mr Scargill, 74, said he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became NUM president in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.

BBC: Arthur Scargill

Mr Scargill, 74, says he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.

BBC: Arthur Scargill