Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] two years he " 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 he has begun on July 10 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
5 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
8 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
9 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
14 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
15 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
16 | It makes sense to retain Lineker , for though his rate of scoring may have dropped considerably over the past two years he remains the only England striker of sufficient class to succeed in Italy next summer . |