Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | That cost will now be shared with MCI , which expects the venture to be profitable after two years . |
| 3 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
| 4 | On coming down Eyre taught English for two years at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Blackburn , where Russel Harty was one of his pupils . |
| 5 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 6 | Therefore , we reasoned that patients who had been stone free for two years or more might represent a ‘ protected ’ subgroup at low risk for recurrence . |
| 7 | Aunt Tossie , Mrs Florence Fox-Collier , was Maman 's ( Lady Forester 's ) elder and widowed sister — widowed for two years but still wearing full mourning regalia . |
| 8 | Following a period of use for warehousing , the mill stood empty for two years , until it was taken over by Mike Cavanagh in 1976 . |
| 9 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 10 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 11 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 12 | Because his sentences run concurrently he could be free in two years and will almost certainly be free in a little over four years . |
| 13 | This time the subsidy was in the form of an annual tax payable for two years , with the rates on a sliding scale as before . |
| 14 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |
| 15 | ‘ I was sick for two years . |
| 16 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 17 | Mo has owned and completed several boats , including a Trapper 5000 , a well-known Starlight half-tonner , also called Sparkle and , more recently , a Sadler 34 aboard which they have cruised the Mediterranean for two years . |
| 18 | NASA says yes , highly probable for a prototype to be flying tests , but doubtful to be operational for two years . |
| 19 | THE ITED approach to training comes of age this year as it goes fully operational after two years of pilot schemes . |
| 20 | Patients were assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning at approximately three months , six monthly to two years and then yearly after percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 21 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 22 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 23 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 24 | Contraceptive precautions should be continued until a woman has a period or any bleeding for two years if ages 45–50 , and for one year if over 50 . |
| 25 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 26 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 27 | Initial product is due in two years . |
| 28 | But he knows that his political honeymoon will be short-lived and that his change of policy must show benefits before the next presidential election due in two years . |
| 29 | Complaints have increased five-fold in two years . |
| 30 | In February the chairman of National Westminster Bank , Lord Alexander , warned his investment-banking arm , County NatWest , that it had to become profitable within two years or face possible closure . |