That means the event or condition can take place or be satisfied within three years, but must not, or will not continue beyond three years.
For instance, you are required by a court to make total restitution for damage to your neighbors property within "a period not to exceed three years". This means you will have to pay the entire judgment within a three year term, or suffer other legal remedies...perhaps a jail term.
Another example is that you might be sentenced to prison for a crime that allows a judge to decide the length of the sentence...for instance "a term of not less than six months, but not to exceed three years", which means the judge, on conviction, must sentence you to at least six months, but cannot sentence you to more than three years.
The phrase "years and years" typically refers to a long period of time, often emphasizing the continuous passing of multiple years in a situation or context. It conveys a sense of duration or persistence over an extended period.
The correct spelling is "triennium." It refers to a period of three years.
Rostam was an Iranian warrior who reappears periodically over a period of three hundred years to drive back the Turks.
The phrase Three score years and ten is from Psalms 90 verse 10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten;and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,yet is their strength labor and sorrow;for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
There were three wars over a period of 120 years.
The payback period is ascertained by calculating the number of years needed to recover the cash invested in a project, For example, an investment of 1000 provides a return of 200,300,500 in consecutive three years. Then total of return in 3 years will be equal to the original investment. Hence the payback period is three years.
A period of thirty years is called a "trio-decade" or simply a "thirty-year period."
There is no single word in English for a period of 300 years. Three centuries. As an adjective, or a noun referring to the anniversary of 300 years, you could use tricentennial.
three years
8 years normally.
The odds are 91% that any given 12-year period will include three leap years. The other 9% of the time there are two leap years in a 12-year period. There are never four leap years in a 12-year period.
The old kingdom was a period in Egyptian history that lasted for about 500 years, from about 2700 to 2200 BC