Example sentences of "had two years " in BNC.

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1 No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth .
2 … She had two years , in the centre of it .
3 For example , when I left Clifton and had two years to kill before Cambridge , I went back and taught at my old prep school for £5 a week .
4 Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard .
5 Jimmy laughed again : ‘ Before that , I had two years ’ apprenticeship in the shipyards .
6 I had two years with Pam .
7 And we had two years with no pay rise .
8 After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks .
9 Shreeves , who had two years in charge during the mid-Eighties , had been a surprise reappointment as team manager after Venables moved upstairs last summer .
10 TONY FOSTER — NOW 42 — read chemistry at Oxford , decided he wanted a commercial career , joined ICI in the London sales office , then had two years as a Midlands sales rep selling chemicals for the Mond Division followed by three years as a product manager for sodium cyanide .
11 Erm , I think the charge that has been laid against myself personally and my myself and my colleagues is the charge of vacillation and changing our mind and I and I am grateful to c my colleague David for reminding us that we have in this county had two years two years when the Labour party and the Conservative party have been hand in glove , absolutely determined that the way forward in relation to homes , elderly persons homes , not that 's not to close any and now we 've had a complete volte face when they 've changed their minds and they 've come along with us .
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