Example sentences of "[prep] three years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 4 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 5 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 6 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 7 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 8 | ‘ For three years I 've believed that Donald died instantly . |
| 9 | For three years I have n't known what the big job will be . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 12 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 13 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 14 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 15 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 16 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 17 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 18 | Within three years he had emigrated to the United States . |
| 19 | Within three years he had become the most successful muslin manufacturer in Britain . |
| 20 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |