Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] two years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 2 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 3 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 4 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 5 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 6 | cos I worked two years all the time I had a few bob for that extra that 's all . |
| 7 | Sarah had nursed her mother until she died two years ago . |
| 8 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 9 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 10 | We have no indication that his parents have had any contact with him since he disappeared two years ago . ’ |
| 11 | Before he served two years in prison , Bobby Lavender had , as they say in LA , ‘ dressed the dress , walked the walk and talked the talk ’ of the black urban gangster . |
| 12 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 13 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
| 14 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 15 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 16 | Anyway , I 'd already had one moment of glory with Peter when he won two years before in the 1958 British Open . |
| 17 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |