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The phrase "nearly three years" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in sentences when you are referring to a time period of approximately three years that has not yet been completed. For example: "We have been working together for nearly three years now."
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For nearly three years, Maxi stood watch.
And so on, for nearly three years.
It's nearly three years old.
The application process takes nearly three years.
His song was nearly three years ago.
Again, it's been nearly three years since the merger.
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Nearly ten years.
After nearly two years.
Not after nearly twenty years.
Hamad spent nearly five years at Guantánamo.
They were nearly seventy years old.
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