Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] two [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 2 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 3 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
| 4 | The celebrated bust , looking like two dunces ' caps applied to her chest , was encased in a puce halter-necked sweater which left all but essentials bare . |
| 5 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 8 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |
| 9 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Retired Air Force general Richard V. Secord was sentenced to two years ' probation on Jan. 24 for his role as one of the principal participants in the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 14 | Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 . |
| 15 | Laclé , sentenced to two years ' imprisonment , was pardoned by Eyadema in early January 1990 . |
| 16 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 17 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 18 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Col. Amadeo Martínez Inglés was sentenced to two months ' imprisonment on Dec. 12 , 1989 , for advocating , in a book entitled Defenceless Spain , an end to conscription and its replacement by a professional Army . |
| 20 | The leader of the Kosovo Parliamentary Party , Veton Suroi , was subsequently sentenced to two months ' imprisonment for organising the event without seeking permission , or registering it with the police . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 23 | Nervous because she was due to play in two chukkas ' time , Perdita refused even to acknowledge Daisy 's presence . |
| 24 | GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 . |
| 25 | I said tentatively , ‘ Suppose in two years ' time the situation was different ? ’ |
| 26 | His Francesca was a rising star in the Department of Trade and Industry , and they planned to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a skiing holiday , due to start in two weeks ' time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | er York apparently ask for two years ' experience in |
| 29 | the Arctic night , with no sunrise from 10 December to 3 January in these latitudes , tempted Admiral Hamilton to keep the strike force of eight destroyers and the cruiser HMS Arethusa in support of a prolonged visit , until a German bomb fell close to the cruiser , forcing the decision to withdraw after two days ' occupation . |
| 30 | The poem would arrive in two days ' time . |