Example sentences of "but [prep] three years " in BNC.
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1 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
2 | After he had completed his apprenticeship he went out to India as manager of the Fort Gloster mills , but after three years returned to Glasgow and in 1838 joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine accessories . |
3 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
4 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
5 | But within three years all that had gone as well . |
6 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |