Sentence examples for close to three years from inspiring English sources

He ended up spending close to three years there.

By contrast, says Niny Khor, an economist in Beijing at the Asian Development Bank, China has an urban-rural gap of close to three years of education.

Blogging The Boys has been in existence for close to three years and it requires a lot of time on my part.

After close to three years of primary schooling, 31percentt of students were still unable to identify most letters of the alphabet and read or write a single word.

The full mission would take close to three years and the astronauts' exposure to medical hazards such as long-term weightlessness and cosmic rays would be 100 times higher than it was for the lunar missions.

Asked whether he could have done anything to save Bear, he offered little tangible response: "That's a question I've asked myself for close to three years since I retired and I don't have an answer".

We did that for close to three years--the writing, making the record, and then touring the world a couple of times.

A dear friend of close to fifty years.

"It's been brewing for close to four years.

He suffered severe night terrors for close to two years.

The entire project took close to six years.