Example sentences of "[pron] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 2 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
| 3 | Of Somerville she recalls : ‘ My two years in the Somerville Graduate House were , I think , the most ecstatic in my life ’ . |
| 4 | Except that it was only the wealthy that did their two years . |
| 5 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 6 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 7 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 8 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 9 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court were told that when details of this attack came to light , a second girl had accused the boy of raping her two years earlier , when she was thirteen . |
| 10 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court were told that when details of this attack came to light , a second girl had accused the boy of raping her two years earlier , when she was thirteen . |
| 11 | For once it was Veronique in front , on Henderson Flarepath , a horse Michael lent her two years ago , after selling her top horses , Cogshall Spot On and Jingo , to Ian Fox . |
| 12 | In its two years of existence , Charterail has tried to demonstrate that the railways could be used not only for bulk freight such as coal , aggregates and steel , but were also flexible enough to shift fast-selling consumer goods efficiently . |
| 13 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 14 | The Ford Motor Company , which two years ago chose the Motorola 88000 as the RISC processor for its electronic engine control modules in preference to Intel Corp ( UX No 338 ) , has , as predicted ( UX No 374 ) , switched its allegiance to Motorola/IBM Power PC architecture . |
| 15 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 16 | Soon after came David Cork , an inventive inside-forward once with Arsenal and Huddersfield , and York 's Kevan Smith , who two years earlier had played with Coventry . |
| 17 | In taking the job , Mr Preston , who two years ago insisted that J.P . |
| 18 | The girl who two years ago was earning $150 a week playing Charlene on Neighbours is now the hottest pop property on the planet , commanding £10,000 for the briefest of public appearances and well on her way to selling £24 million worth of records that year . |
| 19 | Colin Wallace , who two years ago got £30,000 in compensation for being wrongly dismissed by the Army , says , simply : |
| 20 | But the Russians of Torpedo Moscow hit back when Igor Chuganov beat Peter Schmeichel , who two years ago had led his former club Brondby to penalty glory in the same stadium . |
| 21 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 22 | Another horse with a lot going for him is Cahervillahow who two years ago was being touted as a future winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 23 | Peacock was indeed a director of the Bank of England ; but he was also the partner in Baring 's who two years earlier had succeeded the late Lord Revelstoke as adviser on the King 's private finances . |
| 24 | Yeah taken you two years to collect it . |
| 25 | Schoendoerffer 's commentary informs us that of the 33 men in the platoon , all but five are draftees whose two years ' military service include one in Vietnam . |
| 26 | I would have to ask whether it is right to use the measure to reward people who did something two years ago , or whether it would be better to use the money to encourage people to continue the process in the future . |
| 27 | After two years , however , Gordon too got the wanderlust urge and planned a horse-back ride from South America to New York that would take him two years . |
| 28 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 29 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 30 | He had a little pink around his muzzle and eyes when I bought him two years ago , but this has been gradually increasing and is now quite extensive . |