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Example sentences for "for the last three"

  • She's had her new coat on for the last three weeks.

  • I've been trying to make you see it for the last three and a half years, and you wouldn't.

  • I have taken a note of it for the last three years.

  • For the last three years I have sold it in Lerwick.

  • Yes, for the last three or four years I have always got my money at the Custom House.

  • You been sendin me three hundred pounds every year, for the last three years!

  • Why, you have not written me for the last three years, although I have despatched at least a score of letters to you in that time, and have never had an answer to one of them.

  • I feel very weak; for the last three days I have only taken a little broth and chocolate.

  • For the last three days I found myself more than once alone with her; but I was studiously moderate, and she caressed me in a manner that would have made my bliss if I had not already obtained the one great favour.

  • We were four; for the last three hours we had been talking, and I was the hero of the romance.

  • For the last three months he had been a journalist, dramatic and musical critic to a Sunday newspaper.

  • He has been worrying me about it for the last three months, and on Saturday afternoon, hearing that I was clearing out and going abroad, he came round again.

  • But every servant in the house had known all about it for the last three hours.

  • For the last three years I have lived upon what I have earned, and I am not in debt.

  • For the last three days we have been going on quietly with fair, warm weather, but a nice fresh breeze sprang up to-day.

  • After struggling until twelve o'clock, and having done but little good for the last three hours, Tom determined to run back, and in a short time we found ourselves once more at anchor in the harbour of Kobe.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the last three" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    compound sentence; for sale; for the simple reason; for the very reason; for want; for you must know; foramen magnum; foreign articles; foreign grain; foreign influence; foreign lands; foreign port; foreign relations; foreign states; forest products; form boys; form some; former ages; former days; former letter; formerly related; formerly used; formidable force; forth from; fortnight since; forty guns