Example sentences of "[prep] two [noun pl] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When tested after two hours ' extra sleep , subjects performed worse on a vigilance task , although not significantly worse on a calculation task .
2 In January 1919 , the superintendent-nurse , Miss Price , returned to duty after two months ' sick leave ( which had started on Armistice Day ) .
3 A graduate will be recognized as a licentiate member and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience .
4 Graduates with appropriate subject profiles will be recognized as licentiate members and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience .
5 ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing .
6 — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work .
7 Eligibility for payments is now restricted to workers under the age of 65 who have a minimum of two years ' full-time service since the age of 18 .
8 PhD candidates with a Masters qualification have to complete a minimum of two years ' full-time study
9 Protection against unfair dismissal is available only to employees with two years ' continuous service ; anyone dismissed before then has no recourse to an industrial tribunal —
10 Erm my Lord that trial bundle two in part A , my Lord , trial bundle three of part A erm , comprises expert evidence from two accountants er one from each side and my Lord the er evidence of the erm plaintiff 's accountant is that of Mr whose report appears in this bundle and the defendant 's .
11 The recall re-presents come back in two phases erm one tape will come back on the fifteenth of April , the second tape will come back on the sixteenth of April which means that those policies , when status report runs on the fifteenth of April it will only assess those policies erm that have had
12 We will guarantee every child access to two years ' preschool education with a choice of preschool provision .
13 DMITRY SOKOLOV : aged 21 , he was sentenced to two years ' compulsive labour by a court in Russia on 5 May 1991 for ‘ evasion of regular call-up to active military service ’ under Article 80 of the Criminal Code .
14 Firstly , the training of young people , building upon a Council Decision ( Dec. 1987 ) calling for the setting-up of a system giving all young people the right to up to two years ' basic training .
15 In 1886 he met Oscar Wilde [ q.v. ] ; their friendship developed slowly , but in 1895 , when Wilde was sentenced to two years ' hard labour for homosexual crimes , Ross was his most constant and loyal friend .
16 Not only is this statement admissible in tribunal proceedings , but unreasonable refusal to provide such a statement renders the employer , on the application of the employee to a tribunal , liable to a penalty payable to the employee of a sum equal to two weeks ' gross pay .
17 In Rostock where 32 arrests had been made in connexion with the August violence , one man was sentenced on Sept.10 to nine months ' imprisonment , while on Sept.15 one youth was put on probation for a year and another was sentenced to two weeks ' juvenile detention .
18 The 1988 Social Security Act also tightened the contribution tests , making receipt of benefit conditional on two years ' consecutive employment immediately prior to claiming .
19 Every able-bodied male was liable for conscription , from the age of 17 , for two years ' full-time training in the infantry , three in the cavalry or horse artillery .
20 I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service .
21 When it meets a Tit for Two Tats player , on the other hand , Tit for Two Tats 's greater forgivingness nips this recrimination in the bud .
22 George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service .
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