I have learned three sentence patterns this week.

这个星期我已经学了三个句型了。

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Let's answer that by looking at the three sentence description again.

让我们再看看这三句话的说明，来回答这个问题。

youdao

He has three more years in prison before he's served out his sentence.

他要在监狱里再待三年，才能服满刑期。

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The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But now, take a more complicated language-- same vocabulary, the same three nouns, the same two verbs, the same sentence, but now one other sentence.

但现在,我们来说一种更加复杂的语言,同样的词汇,同样的三个名词,同样的两个动词,同样的句子,但现在却多了另一个句子

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The trial of Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who shot to fame after flinging his shoes at former President George Bush during a press conference last December in Baghdad, ended with a relatively light three-year sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Cunningham's 34-year-old son, Timothy, was given a three-year sentence suspended for three years.

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Will Smith was suspended four games and Scott Fujita (now with the Cleveland Browns) got a three game sentence.

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If my math is correct, that means that Snipes served 845 days (remember 2012 was a leap year) of his three year sentence.

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