Example sentences of "[prep] two years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years they die out , unable to complete with the grass and your nursery-raised seedlings , which are plug-planted into the award after the second mowing . |
| 2 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 3 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 4 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 5 | After two years he was back heading Brigade S , a swing pop band who borrowed much from Kid Creole And The Coconuts . |
| 6 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 7 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 8 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 9 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 10 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 11 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 12 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 13 | After two years it was found that the fish eaters had up to 30 per cent less chance of dying from a second heart attack than those who had been told nothing about fish . |
| 14 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 15 | After two years his sight began to return in one eye . |
| 16 | After two years my work was extended to include a number of musical shows , including piano recitals , with such international personalities as Egon Petri and the Australian baritone , Clement Q. Williams and his accompanist-wife , Enid Conley . |
| 17 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 18 | If they reduced their blood cholesterol level by 10 per cent , within two years their risk of heart attack would go down by 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 20 | Henry Smith was in fact Irish , having been born in Dublin on 2 November , 1826 , but within two years his father died and the family moved to England . |
| 21 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 22 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 23 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 24 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 25 | Within two years he and his supervisor , Harry Mark , had completed a controversial piece of work pioneering a way to measure the spectra of chemical reactions on the surface of an electrode . |
| 26 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 27 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 28 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 29 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
| 30 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |