Example sentences of "[prep] two years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years he was back heading Brigade S , a swing pop band who borrowed much from Kid Creole And The Coconuts . |
| 2 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 3 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 9 | In two years he hopes to complete his work , which could become a model for future generations to save the rainforests for centuries to come . |
| 10 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 11 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 12 | For two years he went out to nightclubs in Paris every night until six in the morning . |
| 13 | For two years he was a member of the Conservative party , on the grounds that its members were ‘ upholders of Anglo-Saxon tradition and supremacy ’ . |
| 14 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | For two years he was exhibited in fairgrounds , and it was while he was on display in an empty shop in Whitechapel Road , London , opposite the London Hospital , that Treves first saw him . |
| 16 | For two years he travelled through Britain convalescing . |
| 17 | For two years he fed the poor woman poison . ’ |
| 18 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 19 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 20 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |