Example sentences of "and [prep] three years " in BNC.

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1 And for three years , it earned its return , every month .
2 He installed his wife and family in a large London house , and for three years plied a profitable export trade between England and Australia .
3 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 .
4 Isambard himself went to Paris to study at the age of fourteen , and after three years returned to join his father 's firm .
5 Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love .
6 Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love .
7 Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 .
8 Work started immediately , and within three years the scheme was completed .
9 From 1985 he began evening classes and within three years had passed two O-levels and two A-levels .
10 From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court .
11 Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath .
12 And in three years time Ford will unveil its challenge to the Renault Espace multi-purpose vehicle .
13 Pilade was the only one to whom she showed her true self and at three years of age this was no burden to him .
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