Example sentences of "[prep] two years because [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals .
2 COUNCILLORS have decided a city painting firm should be banned from working for the district for two years because their work has not come up to scratch .
3 Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious .
4 Another girl was ‘ sent away ’ for two years because her mother was severely ill after childbirth .
5 Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed .
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