Example sentences of "[be] two [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind the provocation , and the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , the sentence was far too lenient , and a proper sentence would have been two years ' immediate imprisonment : that sentence would be substituted . |
| 2 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 3 | The final stage is two years ' apprenticeship to an established solicitor , known as articles of clerkship , which can be regarded as the clinical stage of training during which the skills of managing an office , interviewing clients , writing letters , instructing counsel and handling client money are learned . |
| 4 | The maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment or an unlimited fine . |
| 5 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
| 6 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 7 | There 's two days ' reading in that heap , easy . |
| 8 | It 's two days ' journey to London by horse , and Will talked all the way . |
| 9 | ‘ In two months ’ time , but it 's two weeks ' journey and |
| 10 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 11 | Until 1985 the maximum penalty for indecent assault on a female was two years ' imprisonment , compared with ten years for indecent assault on a male — a legacy of the horror with which homosexuality was viewed , and of the undervaluing of female sexual and physical autonomy — but the maximum penalty for both forms of indecent assault is now ten years . |
| 12 | so that day at erm , it was two weeks ' time that day erm tt , think is on er Robocop |