Example sentences of "[art] [adj] two years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 2 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 3 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 4 | Demand for the company 's breakfast cereals and snack food products has increased rapidly across Europe during the past two years and it is a leading manufacturer of own-label breakfast cereals . |
| 5 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 6 | They will apply to fourth and fifth-formers , aimed at providing the pupils with more choice and flexibility during the last two years before they can leave school . |
| 7 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 8 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 9 | Commercial director John Roberts , son of company chairman John C H Roberts , said : ‘ Despite the recession , we have expanded by 30pc over the last two years and we are confident of further expansion . ’ |
| 10 | But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors . |
| 11 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 12 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 13 | In 1868 , a mere two years after he had first begun his course in Cheltenham , he left London and his family again — for good , this time . |