Example sentences of "[v-ing] two year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris predicted a 1.3 per cent growth , ending two years of decline . |
| 2 | After serving two years of her sentence , she was released on probation . |
| 3 | M. André Simon , Boulestin 's compatriot and contemporary , writing two years ago of Boulestin 's rule that all wines young or old , red or white must be served in a decanter , recorded that " he never liked the shape and colour of wine bottles standing on the table : they were of the greatest use , of course , but their right place was the cellar or pantry " . |
| 4 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 5 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 6 | Adding two years of 10% growth and dollar inflation , this implies a GDP of $1,870 billion in 1992 ( or $1,460 per head ) . |
| 7 | After waiting two years on the back-burner for Batmania to boil itself dry Clean and Sober is finally getting a UK release , allowing Michael Keaton to do his twitching and snorting coke fiend routine without risk of dirtying the caped crusader 's pristine image . |
| 8 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 9 | Beam waiting two years |
| 10 | The numbers waiting two years have fallen by some 31 per cent . |
| 11 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 12 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 13 | A report by Mr John Flook , the authority 's deputy chief executive , showed that those waiting two years dropped from 74 in December to 43 last month . |
| 14 | Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts . |
| 15 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 16 | More a bland statement of fact from a man whose decision to return to horse racing two years ago rescued him from a life of increasingly worrying seclusion following his term in prison for tax evasion . |
| 17 | Despite engaging in extended negotiations lasting two years , Henry 's representatives failed to persuade the pope that the case should be heard by Wolsey in England , with no right of appeal to Rome against the verdict . |
| 18 | As one would anticipate from the standard grief reaction commonly lasting two years , the recovery process is itself a grief reaction to the loss of a former " friend " in the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 19 | Master 's Degrees lasting two years |
| 20 | Yeah I can still see you in flaming two year 's time simply because you 're too frightened to say anything to him , to my son . |
| 21 | In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC . |
| 22 | He ended up staying two years , partly because he found out that the sinecure in Stirling had , to use an aikido expression , dissipated . |
| 23 | thank you so within either a year or maybe something approaching two years of the existence of the brochures with those words in you raise the concern , that it might be misleading if left in |
| 24 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | After spending two years at the South Kensington School of Art , he went for a year to the office of the architect Sir Ernest George when he was still only eighteen . |
| 26 | All ends happily , with a splendid scene of Anglo-French entente where the aged earl of Oxford decides to pass his remaining time in the company of his English daughter and French son-in-law , spending two years at Dammartin and two years in England by turns . |
| 27 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 28 | After spending two years in Paris trying to establish a French edition of his newspaper , New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett , as a result of watching the increasing popularity of motor racing , put up a magnificent trophy to be contested annually by national " teams ' in an effort to help promote the motor industry . |
| 29 | She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation . |
| 30 | Coming two years to the day after the massacre in Tbilisi of 20 Georgian nationalist demonstrators by Soviet troops [ see p. 36593 ] , the declaration followed the overwhelming " yes " vote in Georgia 's March 31 independence referendum [ see pp. 38078-79 ] . |