Example sentences of "[prep] the three years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
2 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
3 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
4 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
5 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |