Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] two years ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal .
2 The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole .
3 But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever .
4 Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 .
5 After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack .
6 Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett .
7 The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently .
8 Laclé , sentenced to two years ' imprisonment , was pardoned by Eyadema in early January 1990 .
9 Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] .
10 Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] .
11 Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment .
12 Retired Air Force general Richard V. Secord was sentenced to two years ' probation on Jan. 24 for his role as one of the principal participants in the Iran-contra scandal .
13 Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 .
14 One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto .
15 GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 .
16 I said tentatively , ‘ Suppose in two years ' time the situation was different ? ’
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18 THAT her divorce from Prince Andrew will be finalised in two years ' time .
19 Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio .
20 Building will start in October with full production planned for two years ' time .
21 Le Moignan has talked about retiring in two years ' time , but that could be hastened if there were another loss to Opie , who has made a determined comeback after defeats in the world and British opens .
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