Example sentences of "[prep] three years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 2 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 3 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 4 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 5 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 6 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 7 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 8 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 9 | For three years I played at will . |
| 10 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 11 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 12 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |
| 13 | For three years it went on . |
| 14 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 15 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 16 | Within three years he had emigrated to the United States . |
| 17 | Within three years he had become the most successful muslin manufacturer in Britain . |
| 18 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 19 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |