Example sentences of "[prep] two years [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 222(5) ( a ) contains a time-limit of two years during which the election as to main residence can be made and if an election is not made within the period the question of which is the main residence is determined by the Inspector of Taxes , subject to the usual right of appeal . |
| 2 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 3 | These paintings follow from a period of two years in which Chevallier examined the potentialities of the colour red . |
| 4 | The League , who will discuss Grima 's case today , has confirmed that Widnes are within their rights to demand a fee even though they have cancelled his registration with two years of his contract left . |
| 5 | Make it clear that you have taken in details by phrasing questions along the lines of , ‘ I 've looked at your educational record which seems excellent but could you perhaps tell me why you did not pass maths until two years after your other 0 levels/changed schools halfway through A levels/took a year off while doing your degree ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , within two years of its discovery , the snail 's survival is threatened by a Thames Water Authority scheme . |
| 7 | Where a licensing board has refused an application for a new licence in respect of any premises , the board shall not , within two years of its refusal , entertain a subsequent application for a new licence in respect of the same premises unless the board , at the time of refusing the first-mentioned application , makes a direction to the contrary . |
| 8 | The Meech Lake Accord , a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution , collapsed on June 23 , having failed to achieve the necessary ratification by the legislatures of all 10 provinces within two years of its passage by the federal House of Commons ( on June 22 , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 10 | The end of his second term of chairmanship — shortened to two years at his request — comes as Glasgow faces the prospect of most of the city 's major hospitals being devolved to trust status . |
| 11 | In addition to those caused by serial parts being bound ( discussed above ) , difficulties were created ( a ) by applications for serials or serial parts which consultation of the catalogues would have shown did not form part of the Library 's holdings , ( b ) by the Library 's non-receipt of ‘ current ’ serial parts ( sometimes up to two years after their nominal date of publication ) , and ( c ) by lack of information in the Issue Hall concerning the precise location of particular serial parts . |
| 12 | ‘ I was n't with Dr Mackenzie for two years for nothing . ’ |
| 13 | Performance , withheld for two years before its release , does both . |
| 14 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |