Example sentences of "[adj] two year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 4 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 5 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
| 6 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 7 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 8 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 9 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 10 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 11 | We have a brand new one five year erm insurance , part and labour everything two two year we notice the water 's not pumping off fast enough so the water 's dripping backwards . |
| 12 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The last two years we 've grown really close , ’ she said at last . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | For the last two years he 's covered the City of London Festival , a smaller version of the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 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 has been a hospital porter . |
| 20 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 21 | ‘ In the last two years I have missed nearly everything , ’ he said . |
| 22 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 25 | Yeah sh , only the last two years she 's gone a bit blind or otherwise she could do anything could n't she ? |
| 26 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 27 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 28 | The last two years it 's been falling apart so we have to ke kept kept folding the wheels back on |
| 29 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 30 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |