Example sentences of "[prep] two years ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 2 | At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica : |
| 3 | a minimum of two years ' experience in Medical Information in the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 4 | ‘ Fields of Vision — Dreams of View ’ — Dawson 's first exhibition dedicated to personal creative work and the result of two years ' work in collage — is showing at Smiths ' Gallery 3 in Covent Garden from 17–22 February . |
| 5 | The walk-in centre is the result of two years ' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal . |
| 6 | The guidelines are the results of two years ' consideration with professionals in the field . |
| 7 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
| 8 | McCann , in which the Court of Appeal reduced the sentence for a relatively minor burglary by an offender who had only one distant previous conviction , from two years ' imprisonment to nine months . |
| 9 | Sex offender Karl Gambrill escaped a prison term for attempted intercourse on the little girl when Judge Ian Starforth Hill , QC , sentenced him to two years ' probation at Winchester Crown Court for attempted unlawful intercourse . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A marketing executive for the Boeing Co. , Richard Lee Fowler , was sentenced on Jan. 13 , 1990 , to two years ' imprisonment for passing over 100 classified Defence Department documents , including a five-year budget projection , to Boeing between 1979 and 1985 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition . |
| 17 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |
| 20 | er York apparently ask for two years ' experience in |