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Bookmark or Share- experience, of, in or with - WordReference ForumsFor example, "I have a lot of experience in sales and marketing" or "I have experience in teaching." To have experience with something could be either a field or something more specific. While you could say, "I have experience with sales and marketing," you could also say, "I have a lot of experience with working with children."
- collect/acquire/gain/get experience - WordReference ForumsThis experience can be both positive and negative or simply good and bad. I know that we can say "gain experience" and "get experience", but how about the following constructions: 1) They collected much experience after working with animals for 2 years 2) They acquired new experience after working with animals for 2 years?
- earn/gain/gather experience - WordReference Forums"Earn experience" is not normal English Gain experience is usually a deliberate action. "He worked in the factory to gain experience of production methods" Gather experience is less deliberate or focussed "He toured Europe to gather experience of peoples and cultures"
- 3-year v. 3 years' experience - WordReference ForumsThe meaning of "experience" is different in your first two sentences. A "three-year experience" means that you had an experience that lasted three years. For example: "I lived in France in the 1990s. It was a wonderful three-year experience". "This position requires three years' experience" means, as you know, work experience.
- From/In my experience-preposition - WordReference ForumsFrom my experience is possible, but not common (at least in BE). For example, if you look at the British National Corpus, you find 19 examples, compared with 194 for in my experience. In the US corpus (COCA) there is a similar pattern: 165 from compared with 750 in
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