Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] two years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 2 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |
| 3 | For the past two years he has begun on July 10 . |
| 4 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 5 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 6 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 7 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 8 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 9 | For the past two years I 've felt that there was something odd in some of the accounts . |
| 10 | However , for the past two years I 've dedicated myself to it in total and , like yours , my trade has mushroomed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ For the past two years I 've made all the decisions , major and minor , though heaven knows why when I employ intelligent , capable , highly qualified managers . |
| 12 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 13 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 14 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 15 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 16 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 17 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 18 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 19 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 20 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 21 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 22 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
| 23 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 24 | For the next two years he was a pupil under ( Sir ) Henry Fowler [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway at its Derby works . |
| 25 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 26 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 27 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 28 | During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service . |
| 29 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 30 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |