Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 2 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 4 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 5 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 6 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 7 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 8 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 9 | He worked for three years with Sir Samuel Canning [ q.v. ] , |
| 10 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 11 | He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) . |
| 12 | He toured for three years from coast to coast . |
| 13 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 14 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |