The amount of overall mutual fund assets in bonds has fallen over the last three-plus years to 17 percent of assets, from 31 percent at the beginning of 1995.

After Richard Dawson's departure, Daily was a semi-regular in the lower-tier middle seat for the last three-plus years of the show's CBS and syndicated run.

"Most states," Mr. Spears said, "would take three-plus years to do that kind of test."

Mr. Kosner joined Esquire in September 1993 after 13 years at New York magazine, replacing Terry McDonell, who also lasted only three-plus years in the job.

In fact, regarding the fiasco in Iraq and the disastrously incompetent Bush administration, the national mood is finally, three-plus years late, catching up to this so-called ideological left.

But in her three-plus years leading the fund business, Smith Barney's share of the market for stock and bond funds fell to 1.39 percent from 1.84 percent, according to the Financial Research Corporation.

Buck sat transfixed, hearing in a gush much of what he had learned over the past three-plus years from Tsion's daily cybermessages.

As a player with three-plus years in the major leagues, Nomo has 72 hours to accept the demotion or declare himself a free agent.

"I'm more relaxed right now," said Ordonez, who admitted he had stubbornly refused to listen to others' advice for most of the last three-plus years.

Palin has shown a tremendous capacity to surprise during her three-plus years on the national stage.