Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened did n't really sink home for another two years or so . |
| 2 | John Hayward , with whom he wed to live , is keeping on the old flat , and Eliot has paid up the rent for another two years . |
| 3 | Forest 's £3 million-rated midfielder Roy Keane is reported to have agreed an extended contract for another two years . |
| 4 | Christie , 32 , confirmed : ‘ I have now made a definite commitment to compete for another two years . |
| 5 | ANDY PLATT , the world 's best prop forward , turned his back on Aussie gold last night and decided to stay with Wigan for another two years . |
| 6 | Work on DCE is beginning immediately , but DME is not likely to hit the market in any form for another two years . |
| 7 | Cornhill Insurance have agreed to extend their contract to sponsor Test cricket in England for another two years to 1994 at a cost of £3.2 million . |
| 8 | But er who knows we 're probably here for another two years , we might find a dead body somewhere . |
| 9 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 10 | She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years ! |
| 11 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless other clubs fell by the wayside for financial reasons , our plan to put a stop to relegation for another two years might produce 26 clubs in the third division by the end of the 1994–95 season . |
| 13 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 14 | Production is planned to continue for another two years . |
| 15 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 16 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 17 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 18 | Eight changes are out of the question for Lord 's next Thursday but England must do something to stop the rot before all hope of regaining the Ashes disappears for another two years . |
| 19 | You could store these for another two years mum . |
| 20 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 21 | That 's why I was thinking I might hang on to the Volvo for another two years until you 've got your own car and then I can buy what I really want . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 24 | Alfonso entered a period of personal success which nearly eclipsed El Cid for some two years . |
| 25 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 26 | William Terris ' ghost seemed to have an affinity with Mr Hayden because the foreman saw him nearly every day in some part of the station for some two years . |
| 27 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 28 | " It seems you went to see your friend Joseph Hyde first , " she said softly , very softly , " and then , having changed your clothes , you accompanied him to a public house called the Queen Victoria where you attended a secret meeting of the Irish Republican Brotherhood , of which apparently , you have been a member for some two years . " |
| 29 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 30 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |