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The phrase "about three years of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when estimating a duration of time that is approximately three years.
Example: "I have been working in this field for about three years of my career."
Alternatives: "approximately three years of" or "roughly three years of".
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(That took about three years of my life in the nineties).
"I lost about three years of my life to Proust.
After about three years of madness, I met Grant, my husband, and I discovered domesticity.
Mr. Romney's speech amounted to a litany of complaints about three years of Mr. Obama's tenure.
They laugh at Ed Balls, but he was right about three years of "flatlining".
There were 276 deaths in about three years of follow-up.
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This patience enabled Volcker to succeed, though it took about two years of tight money.
"We saw about two years of grief".
"Dombey was about eight-and-forty yeage of age.
Chopin appears to be about thirty years of age.
The Olduvai Gorge palaeoanthropological site, in northern Tanzania, encompasses about two million years of earth history.
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