Example sentences of "two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 2 | Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years . |
| 3 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 4 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 5 | Today , each person with AIDS is surviving on average longer than two years , needing more care than ever before . |
| 6 | After two years of taking no action in response to reports of grave and widespread violations in Iraq , the Commission on Human Rights has appointed a Special Rapporteur to investigate the human rights situation there ; another special Rapporteur has been appointed to examine violations committed by Iraqi forces in occupied Kuwait . |
| 7 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 8 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 9 | He was arrested and jailed for two years in 1977 . |
| 10 | The plight of an Argentinian clerk , Perico Rodriguez , imprisoned and tortured because of his criticisms of the military government , was brought to Amnesty 's attention by an English couple who had previously befriended Rodriguez two years earlier when they were hitch-hiking across Argentina . |
| 11 | Two years after this , in February 1987 , she praised a Gulag memoir by Gustav Herling . |
| 12 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 13 | An adoption bill eventually became law two years later , in 1952 , under the next administration . |
| 14 | Two years previously , a campaign to write into the Irish constitution the existing legislation criminalizing abortion had got under way under the name of the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign . |
| 15 | The period of separation in undefended cases was two years , and five years had to run if one of the parties opposed the divorce . |
| 16 | Two years , he wrote . |
| 17 | Two years since I started on the big glass . |
| 18 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 19 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 20 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 21 | Foodmaster has been running at the BBC catering department for two years . |
| 22 | Paris House — the horse — is two years old and trained by Jack Berry at Cockeram , Lancashire , Chandler cautioned fellow chefs against betting on Paris House in the future , for fear that he could lose a lot of friends ! |
| 23 | The fixed menu idea came from Michael Vaughan , who finally convinced his reluctant wife to stop offering a choice of four dishes at every dinner two years ago . |
| 24 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 25 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
| 26 | Baird then returned to the mainland after two years to work as sous chef under Brian Baker at Hambleton Hall , Leicestershire , before being offered the head chef 's job at Longueville himself 12 months later . |
| 27 | ‘ I was n't with Dr Mackenzie for two years for nothing . ’ |
| 28 | Never lets seed be used that 's more than two years out of Scotland . ’ |
| 29 | Many of these have adopted as a major part of their strategy over the last two years campaigns to attract bidders for Channel 5 franchises to locate in their cities . |
| 30 | ‘ I was unemployed for nearly two years before I came here , I do know what it 's like . |